Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preoccupied to be interested in the suave social attentions of Miami's wealthy winter visitors. Had he not been the President-Elect, he would have been set down as snobbish. The Committee of One Hundred asked him to attend a splendid ball, to sit in a Presidential box, at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach. A curtly polite "No thanks" came from the Penney estate. On the date set he planned to be inspecting the dreary Okeechobee district where 2,000 persons lost their lives in last year's flood and hurricane...
...hold of the official list of 300 bigwigs specially invited by Mr. Hoover to sit on the main platform at the ceremonies on March...
...sit down and talk this thing over. Call in the men from the Garden and the courts, from Hemenway and Soldiers Field. God knows they'll be glad enough to rest a moment! There they come, bandaged, on crutches, gashed and bruised...
Parisians were especially delighted, last week, by a sly little story which came clicking over the cables from Manhattan, just after John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young had embarked on the Aquitania for France, there to sit on the Second Dawes Committee, which will revise the Dawes Plan (TIME...
...went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau. There were cries: "Sit down! Sit down!" Heads turned, international business ceased. Jo Davidson sat down...