Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what it should be the game is rapid. Every player is constantly tense. ... A star member is Dr. Wilbur. He has a peculiar advantage because of altitude (6 ft. 4 in.). . . . Justice Stone is the strong man. When he hurls them, they stay hurled. . . . Attorney General Mitchell plays a fast game. . . . Secretary of Agriculture Hyde disports himself creditably. . . . The President is a lusty player. His specialty is catching high ones and throwing them in hard-to-get returns. . . . Dr. Boone, the President's physician, is small, dark, quick as a flash. . . . Mark...
...ornate Palais Bourbon, confidence in Premier Laval grew like a great political snowball last week. With his stay-at-home wife and his gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval...
Billie Dove is a svelte literary agent. She becomes attracted to a dull young man named Dudley Crome (Charles Starrett) because she likes his refreshing ingenuousness, his simple tastes. These simple tastes are what complicate their married life. Crome wants her to stay at home and have a family. She wants to work. Presently they divorce. Crome marries a girl who sees things his way. She has already had a baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming...
Prior to the Garfield anniversary, alumni enthusiasm included, besides a plan to publish a lot of Garfieldiana, an idea that the college's name might be changed to Garfield College. But Hiram likes Hiram. Almost unanimously the Board of Trustees voted last fortnight to stay Hiram...
...Harrington, rich real estate broker. His son James J. Jr., 20, had been suspended from Northwestern University as a ringleader in a "Hobo Day" riot. Said Father Harrington: "If Jack is out of school, as he seems to be, he will have to go to work. He can stay at home if he wants to. but he'll have to pay board. I'm through supporting him." A $3000 automobile he had given his son was to be sold. Jack, said he, had been a fine boy in preparatory school. But "this modern university system is all wrong. It makes...