Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stand by for boarding by government agents...
...Beach. Next evening, while Miami crowds saw Show Boat for 50?, the "gala" opening was held in Palm Beach. On the day of the first Manhattan performance last week, Miss Morgan was in court, charged with violating the 18th Amendment in her night club. She did not take the stand. Her witnesses insisted that she was only a night club employe, no proprietor. Said the prosecuting attorney in his summation: "She has conducted herself like a lady in court. There has been no wisecracking around here. But this woman, with her God-given talents, has sold her birthright...
...world received officially a copy of the plan outlined above. However, when the delegates were asked their opinions, last week, they nearly all sat silent. After a considerable pause General Alberto de Marinis, representing Signer Benito Mussolini, expressed approval for the first point of the plan only. "We stand ready to reduce our armaments," he said, "to any figure, even the lowest, provided all other nations do the same...
...decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from Paris if the U. S. took such a stand may be imagined. None the less the French Government was last week on the point of imposing precisely similar conditions with respect to U. S. films shown in France...
Said Father Allen: "One day you and I will stand before the judgment seat of God. Then the Lord will say to me, 'Father Allen, did I not call you to go to Africa?' I shall answer, 'Yes. Lord.' Then he will say, 'Why did you not go?' I shall answer, 'There stands the Bishop...