Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paddled in Powell's office. "They told us to bend over like when we pray," said one little girl. "I was sore about three days." Later, another child complained: "Mr. Powell whipped me with a paddle one inch thick." Three boys said they were made to sit on the floor for 20 to 43 minutes with their feet propped up on high stacks of books...
...greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
...went to sleep in the futuristic chairs at Lamont yesterday were the exceptions; most of the multitude that wandered around the different "levels" and peered over the balconies was too busy being amazed or baffled even to sit down...
...Fairless given any thought to the steel shortage? "Are we going to sit here and see this [steel] demand fall," roared O'Mahoney, "or are we going to take action which will maintain the demand . . .? On every hand you find evidence of popular desire for things which are not being supplied . . . But you find also that because of inflation, people's needs are outrunning their income. Shall we just wait...
Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same...