Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compared with the miseries of his childhood in the cinema. He experienced beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment for those who have enjoyed its star's efforts to adjust himself to even less agreeable circumstances...
Anyone who has ever been sick knows how delightful it is to have visitors. I imagine how some Freshman from a far distant spot must feel when he comes here to sojourn for a time in Stillman during his first month. It would not be conducive to joyful feelings even the most hearty. May I suggest to all those upperclassmen who have not outworn doing a daily good turn that here is a fruitful field of endeavor--a visit to an invalid Freshman would not be unappreciated, even by the most bilish. Charles H. Clark...
...where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone to St. Louis in 1918, remained for ten years, returned at the congregation's begging in 1934, after a sojourn in Manhattan. Holy Trinity paid its priest $100 a month, which seemed to be enough since, save for his drinks of an evening, he was a man of modest habits. Last week Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with...
President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...
Respecting his long sojourn in Boston, he comments to his class secretary as follows: "Finally, I have learned to face with equanimity the oft made discovery that I am an Eli-in Boston...