Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...
...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
...miners were favorable on most of the points, but declared that in its main features the plan was arbitration and they remain resolutely opposed to arbitration in any form. The miners put forward the plan offered by Governor Pinchot (TIME, Dec. 7); to this the operators were as strongly opposed because it granted the "check...
...shall make every effort for conciliation within my Cabinet. However, if certain Ministers wish to abandon me I will not raise a finger. . . . (But I shall not abandon those Ministers who remain faithful to me and to France! I shall not resign...
When she allegedly divorced him in 1923: "My friends tell me that Sergei has been in jail for anti-Jewish utterances, but even in jail he contrived to remain permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...