Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women. Such a law, if passed, would for the first time in history plunk "lady lords" down beside gentleman lords in Britain's Upper House.* This stratospheric feminist victory was hailed by "delighted" Virginia-born Lady Astor, 78, bodkin-tongued widow of a viscount and first woman to sit in the House of Commons. With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress...
...Britain's hereditary peerage 24 women really own their own titles, but may not now sit with their male peers...
Studio One: Less a play than a mood piece, The Bend in the Road nonetheless offered some good acting and a grown-up theme: how an elderly minister and his wife adjust to the prospect of sitting out the rest of their lives. Onetime Glamour Boy Franchot Tone, 51, donned whiskers and did his husky-voiced best to play a spry octogenarian fighting the years. Cathleen Nesbitt was fine as his gentle wife. But Playwright John Vlahos never crystallized in a dramatic moment just why the minister surrendered to a tranquil life and moved off to a home...
...turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect. All the time, amid such a fracturing of lives, people sit about, exhibiting the farcical side of family life...
...Mexico's Ambrosia Lake region (TIME, Sept. 30), set a course that probably will be followed by other industry leaders. Said President Clyde Weed: "We will keep on exploring, but at a slower rate. We will spend less money on development. If we find good deposits, we will sit on them until the demand picks...