Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers...
...known that the Cardinal Secretary of State was traveling incognito, accompanied only by his gentleman-in-waiting, Count Enrico Galeazzo, Vatican City engineer and representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome; that the Cardinal wished no elaborate welcome in Manhattan; that his headquarters during his stay would be the great and peaceful Long Island estate of a great Catholic lady, Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, devout and gracious widow of the Manhattan utilities tycoon who left her $9,700,000 at his death six years...
...Next week we play New Haven, that's a college town too, you know. They'll like the show there cause there's no stay stuff I nit, it's plenty rugged. As Jimmy adjusted has polo had and took his place on the stage for the first number he concluded. "The song that'll be most popular is my "I'm About To Become A Mother...
...Artists Davies and Bellows had little in common. Supersensitive, romantic Arthur Davies, painter of moonstruck nudes in mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue rich Miss Lizzie Bliss, richer Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
...very colorful, very oldfashioned. A pre-War production afflicted with post-War megalomania, White Horse Inn will doubtless spread its abundant, handsome Tirolese sets out into the audience and up beyond the proscenium arch of John D. Rockefeller's Center Theatre in Radio City for as long a stay as The Great Waltz...