Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marian Nixon is Rebecca, a semi-waif who has to live with two crusty old aunts because her father is dead and her mother has no money. She is lonely; she tries to run away. She runs to a young Doctor Ladd. He persuades her to stay with the aunts. When she is supposed to be at a prayer meeting, she rides with the doctor on his rounds. They go to a house where a lady is having a baby. Rebecca does not get home until morning. Her aunts are furious. One of them has caught pneumonia going...
...this fight to stay. . . . This is a battle for principle. . . . It is being waged to keep our party as a whole free from dictation by a small group representing the interests in the nation which have no place in our party. . . . Stick to your guns. . . . The nation must not and shall not be overridden. . . . We intend to stand fast...
...Being bled of her hydrogen a few days after arriving from Germany, borrowing the Shenandoah's helium supply for her first flights in the U. S. (Because the gas was scarce in those days, the Shenandoah had to stay at home while her new sister went forth...
...Being treated in 1925 for what Commander Rosendahl called "airship measles, intestinal disorders and even broken bones"; having to stay in dock for months after she was repaired because the Shenandoah had crashed, losing their joint supply of helium...
...tutor a native Maharajah's son, aged two years. In Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...