Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegrams poured in. The Star had come into the market upon the death of the daughter of its late owner, Colonel William Rockhill Nelson, and friends of the newspaper waited in trepidation for the announcement of the buyer. Among those who expressed their satisfaction that the Star was to remain with the men who had made it were governors, cabinet members, editors, ambassadors, politicians, for the Star long ago became a power in the land. But perhaps the most significant telegram was one from Chicago...
Directors of the State Bank of Chicago, faced with the decision either to remain a parochial institution or to become a diocese, even a metropolitan power, decided last week. They chose Ralph Van Vechten (brother of Author Carl Van Vetchen) their president...
...finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall out. The Domnei idea (worship of women) has proved wholly untenable, and no one ever discovers a posset or cantrap to confound Koschei, the god of things as they...
...disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
...whose decks, between races, came sounds of mirth mingled with the tinkling of ice; once more gentlemen slept three in a bed at the Griswold Hotel; once more ladies waved little blue or crimson flags and asked, "Who won?" They should have known that if this race is to remain a classic, the classic result must not be changed. Yale...