Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking a cigar...
...knocked all of a heap by his amazing appearance. When I said that 1 wanted to paint him, his wife told me that he refused to sit to anyone." The obdurate nonsitter was Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The painter: Taos, N.M.'s Dorothy Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level...
...loved solitude, would often sit among people for hours without saying a word. The one thing Herriman could always talk about fluently and without shyness was Krazy...
...amazed at the comprehensive and lucid coverage of your Pacific war news. Those of us who are in the thick of it can appreciate the excellent job you are doing. . . . Each of us is engaged in our own little phase of operations. Then we sit back, read TIME and get the overall picture. It makes us twice as proud of the part we played...
...Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived first at a meeting and proceeded to take the head chair. Then the Archbishop of York arrived. Not to be outdone, he sat on the Archbishop of Canterbury's lap. I hope to heaven the Archbishop of Canterbury never attempts to sit...