Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biddies assembled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed living Biddies: retired Banker Alexander, onetime Boxer Anthony Joseph Drexel...
...quit the Indian Round Table Conference in London because it has shown no sign of recommending independence for India. Promptly St. Gandhi announced: "I will sail for Bombay from Genoa on the 29th. ... I feel that I'm wasting my time here, but I'm willing to stay in London until the end of the Conference, which I expect will be in a fortnight. Then nobody can accuse me of impatience...
...Jewess. Because of what he now thinks "a ridiculous ambition" to better himself socially, Joseph went to the University of Vienna, left it after two years to go to War. His knowledge of Russian helped him to become an officer, a position he liked so much he decided to stay one. Revolution in Austria made him change his mind: he was glad to pick up odd jobs. Newspaper work for the Frankfurter Zeitung gave him leisure to write books. He has written eight: Job is his first bestseller. Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) did the translation; the Book...
...Guests Stay for Dinner...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...