Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire Congressional delegation pleaded with "General" Brown to withdraw his threat. Loudly they pointed out that the Post Office Department had no authority to change a village's name and that so long as the people of Santa Claus wanted to be Santa Clausians, their post office should stay Santa Claus...
...complained. Chief complaint from students was that they were "advised" to do more work than they had time for. To them President Hutchins offered another bit of advice : "You have freedom to go as slow or as fast as you wish. The University attaches no disgrace to a longer stay in the college than two years. The city of Chicago has . . . educational opportunities which may very well be more valuable to you than a formal course. If that is true I should urge you to drop the fourth course every quarter and adjust your program to all your desires...
Perhaps it is better merely to recommend "Das Lied vom Leben" with enthusiasm, and to assure everyone that ignorance of German is no reason to stay away...
...concert, it gave the concert first. The Chamber of Commerce and civic organizations persuaded Conductor Arnold Volpe, once a Kansas Cityzen himself, to recruit an orchestra of 88 musicians. Then it announced two concerts for last week, average price 25? so that no music lover would have to stay home on account of Depression. Few did. Four thousand of them made their way to Convention Hall in limousines, taxicabs, streetcars, busses, on foot. Curious, mildly excited, they piled in, made a good showing in the big, barnlike hall that holds 10,000 when packed. When all was over, Conductor Volpe...
...commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany he took it gratefully, though it meant leaving his wife and family behind. He never rejoined them: from Crefeld he was shifted to Glasgow as consul; when President Cleveland and the Democrats came in (1885) and Harte lost his job, he decided to stay in England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays, but never repeated his early successes. With Mark Twain, Harte collaborated on a comedy, Ah Sin; it was a failure. Bret Harte was still toiling away at his hack-writing when Death came for him in Camberley...