Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which fell on the seat next to him. Secret Service men fell over themselves trying in vain to catch it. The President grinned at "Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until it does rain." It did, after four innings, with the score 0-0. Well spattered before he was covered by an umbrella, the disappointed President was conducted...
...despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain's matadors gravely considered the Mexican menace last week, sent a resolution to the Government demanding strict limitation of the number of foreign bullfighters and of the length of time they may stay in the country. Mexican matadors did not take this lying down. From their own union headquarters they petitioned the Mexican Government to banish all Spanish toreros from Mexico...
...both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
...says we should do as much war-business as "we legitimately can," on gold payment, goods-payment, and short-term credits if necessary. And finally, by maintaining a strong armed neutrality, and at the worst "only entering war against those who had grossly injured us" we are to stay out of the next conflict...
...Sweringen signed was for the sale of $10,000,000 in government bonds from Van Sweringen Corp. to Union Trust Co., of which Joseph R. Nutt was chairman. The bonds were on deposit with J. P. Morgan & Co. against a Van Sweringen loan and were bound by indenture to stay there. But, said the grand jury, the Trust Company used its right of purchase to "window dress" its statement of financial condition in September, making it appear that saleable assets were higher than they really were. That was not all. Mr. Nutt had persuaded Mr. Van Sweringen to leave...