Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons are summoned and hurry to stand at the bar of the Lords. Lastly, the Lord President of the King's Privy Council, Earl Balfour, kneels and presents a scroll containing "The King's Speech." Slowly it unrolls between the Sovereign's fingers and he begins to read: ". . . My relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government . . . my Secretary of State for India . . . my Army . . . my Navy . . . my Empire...
...goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts in a timely reappearance. He must go off to war immediately, but first he has time to stand on the station platform while a camera makes it clear that the world...
...parade wove through snowy drifts and up to the reviewing stand where oaths of honor were taken. Germany led the goo athletes; French, Austrians, Swiss, Canadians, Czechoslovaks, Mexicans, British, Belgians, Argentines. Scandinavians, and 26 U. S. delegates came after. As the U. S. group were swearing themselves amateurs the storm passed and the sun popped out. Attendants hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown...
Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates...
Early standees may arrive for an especially popular play on the midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing...