Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
...great Aga Khan is neither Saint nor Sword, but a very rich, fat and astute descendant of Prophet Mohammed, and therefore the most influential of Indian Mohammedans. Last week the Aga Khan traveled from his sumptuous home in Bombay (western India) to Delhi (northern India), and there prepared to sit as chairman of the all-India Mohammedan Congress. Meanwhile at Calcutta (eastern India) the predominantly Hindu so-called Indian National Congress, met under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru, and under the aegis of sainted Mahatma Gandhi. These two gatherings-neither of them Parliamentary or authoritative-speak for Mother India...
...President Coolidge consented to sit for another oil portrait, to hang in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Building, Manhattan...
...first time Her Majesty presided as Chairwoman of the Crown Council, despite the presence of Edward of Wales, who had been expected to sit as Chairman. Business before the Council consisted in routine exercise of the authority vested in the Crown. However, since the Council does not possess the King's power of creating peers, the usual...
...Another time he asked me when he should sit for me next. I named a date. He consulted his note book, in which every fifteen minutes of his day are accounted for, and observed that on that day he had really intended to go out to the Presidential hunting lodge in the Schorf meadow for a holiday. Of course I offered to change the date, but he insisted on keeping the appointment. He would not for anything in the world have had his pleasure interfere with my convenience. Imagine the Emperor being so considerate...