Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not drink, smoke, or chew. He likes to walk, dislikes to golf. He has not played cards for 30 years, but enjoys hearing music. In physique he is small, slender. His nickname, ''Baldy," has a certain amount of justification, what hairs remain are greying. Every Sunday he goes to the Presbyterian Church...
...water." He read the officially reported adventures of four Prohibition agents at the Carlton Club one January night two years ago. The agents said they stayed in the club, which has not yet been raided, from 11 p. m. to 2:35 a. m. "People do not usually remain up until 3 and 3:30 in the morning dancing at these clubs," deduced Senator Howell, "unless they are animated by something more than natural animal spirits." Moreover, the agents saw liquor, bought liquor, drank liquor. One of the agents was subsequently approached by the manager of the Wardman Park Hotel...
Russian calendar-makers last week announced that the names of the days and months would not be changed for the present: Soviet weekdays will remain Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then Monday again "until something better is thought of." Soviet editors and minor officials hastened to think of something better, suggested naming the days numerically, changing Monday, Tuesday, to Oneday, Twoday, or more romantically adopting such strictly Communist titles as Youthday, Womanday, Sovday (Soviet Day) Comday (Comintern...
Used to acting promptly in emergencies, Policeman Schober, who served as Austrian Chancellor once before (1921-22), instantly accepted on condition that he be given absolutely free rein in forming his cabinet, that, as Chancellor, he still remain in direct charge of his beloved police...
Kelly, according to the taxi-driver, who for reasons of his own having to do with the police, preferred to remain anonymous, refused the tendered manifesto, and nothing happened for a few minutes. "Then," he said, "another traffic cop passed by, and Cohen offered him one of his sheets. The cop took it, and about twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers...