Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Kelly's South Side home his three adopted children (Twins Patricia and Joseph, 8, and Stephen, 4). celebrated their father's victory by coming down with measles. Father Kelly could not stay home to watch them. He was off to Washington to draw a draft on his new political prestige, to ask $265,000,000 of the $4,880,000,000 provided by the new relief bill in order to give Chicago a new airport, parks, elevated highways, sewers...
...sleepiness consisted of inability to stay awake on elevated trains and drowsiness at work. . . . The tendency to sleep increased. She complained of forgetfulness. . . . She was sent...
...whole Author Luhan finds her life in Taos very satisfactory. Not a year-round recluse, she often has brilliant friends to stay with her, and then the simple life blossoms out into cocktails, dinner parties, crackling conversation. After such an occasion, she admits with amusement, her Indian husband, who has spent the evening playing solitaire, refers to the salon as "flies buzzing...
After sinking a picked Bermuda fifteen 17-0 in the opening game of their stay in Bermuda, Harvard managed to eke out a tie with the team of the British West Indies Squadron, and in the last game fell victim to the strategy of Yale and were downed 3-0 by the Elis...
During last week's dust storm, which lasted four days (and in the heart of the drought district ran on for twelve consecutive days), police closed highways to prevent accidents. Airplanes were grounded. Schools and businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great...