Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank," declared that the letters P-R-A-Y stood for Powerful Radiograms Always Yours. Without ever holding a salaried position, Frank Buchman all this time roamed the world sleeping in the homes of the rich or in luxury hotels. Said this Anglicized Pennsylvanian: "Why shouldn't we stay in 'posh' hotels? Isn't God a millionaire...
...ballet!" The general public at first seemed as slow to understand as the persistent cameramen. After a gilded first night (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt had brought an abundant harvest. There was a great clamor for tickets, a queue waiting for standing room. Persistent applause greeted the dancers who could spin with such grace, leap with such ease...
Last January banjo-eyed Funnyman Eddie Cantor (ne Izzy Iskovitch) paused in his Pebeco Toothpaste broadcast. For the best essay on How Can America Stay Out of War? he would give a $5,000 col lege scholarship. Rarely had a radio bene faction been launched under happier au spices. The title was picked by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...
...cannot but feel, however, that the "Association of Gold Star Mothers" got the dirty end of that Princeton stick. They get shipped to Europe "to view the green fields where their sons shall some day lie" while we stay home and enjoy our boni at Savin Rock. Inasmuch as Mr. Brisbane assures us that the next war will be a Japanese invasion, we see no reason why the Vassar heroines cannot get "teary around the eyes" looking at the green fields adjacent to New Haven...
...disease, would have to wait several months. John was not as cast down as he might have been, for already he had met new friends it would be hard to part with: good-hearted Anghel and his lovely wife Zamfira. Anghel asked John to come and stay with them till his eyes were cured, promised to keep him busy. Long after he was well enough to leave, John stayed on. Anghel grew to be as fond of him as if John were his son; John liked him too, but it was Zamfira that kept...