Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes" (later, she dubbed Sir Walter Raleigh "my two Lydds"), and later, when her advisers began to press her to marry a foreign prince, she would point to Robert Dudley and exclaim that there was the only man she would wish to marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with it during a tennis match...
...diplomatic tone of the conference was set. Each night John Lewis strode off from the Labor Department Building in magnificent isolation. A.F. of L. delegates went to confer in their Washington headquarters, C.I.O. delegates to tear their hair in theirs. Management's men, content to sit by while labor bickered, met in hotel suites or the Chamber of Commerce Building, waited to see what labor would do to untangle itself...
Greying, pompous, misogynous Monsieur Jules has been official barber to French parliamentarians for upwards of two decades. Last month, when he heard that women would sit for the first time in a French National Assembly, Jules resigned. "Les femmes," he sputtered. "Pouf...
...weekly Epitaph, lived mostly in the past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted to be sheriff) and his cohort sat on the left...
...treatment is simple. Patients all sit around in one big room and breathe chlo rine from individual tubes, regulating the strength by moving the tubes to &; from their faces. People with arthritis and sinus trouble take it strong (along with coughs, sneezes and watery eyes); people with asthma get it mixed with oxygen...