Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be plenty of curry, hot dogs, ham and soft drinks, as well as native reed-pipe music, color slides and movies. Next day, precisely at noon, surrounded by gifts of native handiwork-fish traps, bamboo baskets, buffalo and cattle bells, even blow guns-Alex and Elsie Johnson will sit down to Christmas dinner. And back home in Miami it will be midnight on Christmas...
...person goes up into the mountain country of eastern Kentucky, up along Defeated Creek or Betty's Troublesome or Caney, and if he'll just sit down and rest a minute, he's likely to hear a fine mort of olden tales. Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep...
Readers who want to give up the time to sit a spell and take it resty are sure to find a heap of olden tales calculated to scunner the young'uns with fright, like the one about the red-haired man whose head doddled about when he walked or talked, or some others that would pleasure them, like the one about a king's daughter that was a sight how pretty. This might well be the last chance, too, for as one old granddaddy after tother told Schoolma'am Campbell: "Tale-telling is nigh about faded...
...WOMEN, by Alberto Moravia. For once, Italy's best writer seems to say that sex is not the most urgent business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill-used in turn by fellow countrymen so rude and crude that only a fellow Italian would dare describe them. Finally they return to Rome with wounds deeper than those they thought to escape...
...Loonie Tunes cartoon has just ended ("That's all Folks!"), and the feature film is just starting. You sit back to enjoy what the Brattle management sickeningly describes as "a piece of witty fluff that oozes more charm than harm...