Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote and wishful talk of "united non-partisan effort" the business of Government-by-politics would go on about as usual in the U. S. for the next four years. In his campaign President-elect Roosevelt exhibited himself as a smart politician and no smart politician who wants to stay in power suddenly and violently revolutionizes the game's rules on his first deal...
...gentle Christ we have sent such people to them. . . . "I came to see what you American Christians were.* . . . I found . . . that most of the missionaries were just like you. . . . You had sent us a fair average. On the whole you felt, however, that the very best ought to stay at home . . . when there was someone whom you rather questioned, if at the same time he seemed earnest and sincere, and consecrated-that miserable word that has been used to cover so many deficiencies and so much sloppy thinking-you rather thought he would do. Preachers who would have bored...
...agency. Year ago he resigned but changed his mind after a long talk with shrewd, paternal President Jesse Isidor Straus. Kenneth Collins' friends say he wanted to be a millionaire by 1936, that Jesse Straus promised to make him one (in Macy stock) if only he would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart-to-be-thrifty advertisements back in 1927, Macy sales have jumped 40% to $100,000,000 annually. He made the notions department appeal to "firemen, housewives, bachelors and babies...
...schoolchildren will be asked to stay after school on ten Friday afternoons this winter but it will not be to clean blackboards or copy promises of good behavior. Their task has been allotted them by Conductor Leopold Stokowski who, finding it difficult "to give the hopeless generation new ideas," declared last week that he would try to make children like modernistic music by having them listen to his broadcasts...
...with Capone," said he wanted to die in New York.) He likes Manhattan, wants to go on living where he has always lived, on the Lower East Side. Estimating Manhattan's speakeasies at 100,000 and their employes at half a million, Izzy thinks Prohibition is here to stay-at least for a long time. Now that he is no longer a sleuth, he is making more money, he says, and getting more sleep. He has a job with the New York Life Insurance Co. "Yes, sir! What was good enough for ex-President Coolidge is good enough...