Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry is small; the knowledge required to preserve even this small margin of profit is a specialized knowledge. To the layman, all scrap may be "junk"; to the scrap iron dealer, there are approximately 75 specifications of scrap iron with which he must be acquainted if he is to stay in the business...
Jacques Dolent took his military service lightheartedly. Better educated than his companions, he was still fancy free, had no light-o'-love waiting outside the barracks to make him absent-minded during drill. But when he met Florence he did not stay intact long. She was model and mistress to an English painter, Dougherty?not much of a man to look at but good with a brush. Florence was getting tired of Dougherty and Jacques was more attractive. She sent Dougherty off on a trip, invited Jacques to spend his leave with her. When his time was up, Jacques...
...lost his quiet head, went after her. The doctor discovered they were sailing on the superliner Columbia for the U. S. He tried to buy a ticket; it was too late. But the ship's doctor turned out to be an old friend. He was anxious to stay at home for one trip, glad to let Dr. Wohlmut take his place. Before the doctor could confront his errant wife his duties had begun to complicate the situation...
...wave began to engulf national politics. At that time he solemnly pontificated: "Relegalizing liquor will not put food into a single hungry mouth. ... To make liquor the chief plank in the next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...
...Fenlon, superior of U. S. Sulpicians, president of St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. Last week Cardinal Verdier arrived from Montreal by way of Worcester, Mass., stopped a few days in a French church in Manhattan, then entrained for Baltimore. Thence he was to go to Washington, stay at the French Embassy, meet President Hoover...