Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictators have to sit lynx-eyed on the lid, have to stay home. But they have their proxies. Last year President Hoover honored Proxy Dino Grandi, pleased Dictator Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha sent two Proxies to Moscow and Dictator Josef Stalin supremely honored them by ordering the first Soviet reception ever tendered to foreigners in the former ballroom of Tsar Nicholas II the marble White Hall of St. George in the Great Kremlin Palace...
...readable detail. Nothing was too much trouble for him.' . . He worked, as everyone now knows, fnuch too hard, really. He wore himself haggard in those early days when the entire reference library would be lugged over Monday night to the printing shop on 12th Avenue and Brit would stay there, often until long after Tuesday sunrise, correcting messy page proofs, catching factual errors, improving captions or footnotes, fitting important stories into impossibly small spaces, putting into the magazine everything he had before the final press deadline came...
Proprietor Chauncey Depew Steele of Briarcliff Lodge is sympathetic to The Groups. Two years ago all the bellhops, chambermaids, desk clerks attended a Group meeting. Last week the 425 members of the house party, each paying $4 per day during the ten-day stay, had the place much to themselves. They met first at a dinner, with much grinning and chuckling and calling of first names. Then Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr. opened the first "experience meeting" with the story about the unemployed broker who hired out to a zoo to pose in a lion's skin...
...John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer and build him a chapel. Silly shot: Chester Morris making Sylvia Sidney wipe the make-up off her face so that she will look demure...
...Tree (by Richard Maibaum; Ira Marion, producer). Ed and Denny and Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...