Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costing us each about $20 a day to stay in Washington. The trial has already lasted 30 days, which means the court members have spent about $600 apiece to remain here, while we all have to keep up our establishments at home. But our chief objection to sitting here is thinking that our own commands may be meanwhile going to hell...
...lecture on Zion Park, originally scheduled for today, will take place tomorrow at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room. Mr. Jones was unable to reach Cambridge in time for an address tonight, a large dinner at which he was to be the guest of honor, forcing a longer stay in Chicago than he had originally planned...
...grazing the singer's ear, burned him severely. Outraged, he quitted Landlady Hitter's establishment, after a stay of 18 years...
...most mysterious thing about that explanation was that it meant exactly what it said. President Teagle wants to stay what he is because he is an oil man?essentially, specifically, an oil man. If this fact suggests a grimy individual in a pair of begritted overalls, with smudged nose and lamentable fingernails, it is nevertheless a fact, for Mr. Teagle not infrequently looks like this. He would rather poke around for oil, he said, than stay in his office and handle papers. The Directors respected his wish...
Helen nags Menelaus to have Pyrrhus come on a visit but he recalls to her that he had admitted one good looking young man to the house with no good result. Insulted, Helen ejaculates, "I left this house once, and I can do it again. . . . I'll stay on the one condition, that you insult me no more. Do you wish me to stay...