Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked at General Dawes and looked away. He looked at Secretary Hoover, saw his popular appeal, pitied his political inexperience. Again he took command, this time of the Hoover preconvention campaign, doing a miraculous job of amalgamating the heterogeneous Hoover following. After the nomination, Mr. Hoover begged him to stay on as Western manager. Reluctantly he did. There was less begging, less reluctance, to get Mr. Good into the Hoover Cabinet...
Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...
...Kellogg was on the high seas bound for Paris. The whole world was waiting to see whether the unprecedented treaty would actually be signed, when the wireless began to crackle. It was the Quai d'Orsay saying that if France was to sign, Morocco must of course stay at home with her lentils. To save his treaty, to prevent his great effort from being turned into a fiasco, Mr. Kellog consented...
...first day he ran five miles. He staggered on bleeding feet into the Locker Building. The next day he fought to finish the seven miles they gave him. The next day and the next it was the same. Then he tried to rest--stay in his room and rest...
Last week, in the two-year story of Byrd in Antarctica, came an event and an exciting episode. Probably without realizing it, Reporter Owen transformed the episode, and not the event, into a climax-a high-pitched part of the Byrd epic to which, stay-at-home editors feared, he would not soon again be able to lift the Byrd epic...