Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky cheeks...
Back at the King David Hotel, a doctor allowed Haile Selassie to have only one visitor, a British bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed...
...undergraduates will be permitted to live in their rooms in the Houses during the celebration as they will be open for occupancy on Monday, September 14. Incoming Freshmen will be invited to join the celebration as soon as the list is completed...
...cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should be thrown open to large groups of friends desiring to live in quarters contiguous to one another. This would by no means be the monoply of Eton and Harrow, but would be equally welcomed by all groups of House applicants, and the motive for withdrawal would in most cases cease to exist...
...English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything but the always-imminent Revolution. He worked hard and well to make money, because he had to live and because Marx needed his financial support, and when he had made enough he quit...