Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything and Shanghai's International Settlement got used to its battle last week. Cinemas in the Settlement re-opened for afternoon performances. There was tea dancing. The 31st U. S. Infantry arrived from Manila to the roaring strains of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," and officers prepared for a long stay by looking for apartments in town. Reporters interviewed Countess Ciano, better known as Edda Mussolini, wife of the Italian Consul General. She, busy feeding Il Duce's grandson, complained that the curfew law interfered with her social engagements. In Rome her father despatched Admiral Domenico Cavagnari with a cruiser...
...months' stay in Porto Rico was very productive, promises to be one of the best things that ever happened to the populace there. He and Dr. Castle developed a thoroughgoing and inexpensive remedy for pernicious anemia. They are waiting for a professional journal to publish the details...
...successor at Baton Rouge he picked Oscar Kelly Allen, 49, red-faced, grey-haired chairman of the State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary campaign Governor Long took the stump for Mr. Allen, made good his boast by selling his candidate to Louisiana's voters over four ineffectual opponents...
...Japanese did stay out of the International Settlement, but they did not stay out of Shanghai. By next nightfall 1,300 Japanese had landed with field pieces and machine guns. The ten warships were spotted at even intervals all up and down the river with their guns trained on the city, decks cleared and men at battle stations. Admiral Shiosawa threatened to occupy all the Chinese forts and barracks in the Shanghai district unless a full apology for the tousling of the monks, one of whom had died, was made, an indemnity paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called...
Having resigned his office as France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand went for a few days' rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits...