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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...Abilene, Kan., a manager cancelled their bookings. Put off a train which they had boarded without money, they walked to the next town. Harpo borrowed his first red wig. The Marx Brothers again burlesqued their act. By the time they reached Oklahoma City they were rich enough to stay at a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Feathers | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said the pilots, let all those who overstay after "All ashore that's going ashore." be left on board, charged fare to the ship's destination and back, or treated as stowaways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: All Ashore | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens.' Then again the patient in the early diabetic stage where not only himself but his wife needs instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B. M. A. | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...woman go to the rail, said to her girl friend: "I'll bet she's getting seasick." Then the girl friend got sick. Said Miss Reardon: "Pretty soon women all around me began to get up and go to the rail. And then they'd stay there and other people would push them aside. And one man got real sick and just leaned his head over, and then everybody started to do that. People were lying all around on chairs looking like they were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Potato Salad | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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