Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
...which his Britannic Majesty accredits you. . . . The harmonious relations between Canada and the U. S. will, I am confident, be augmented through your mission to Washing- ton. ... I desire to assure you, Mr. Minister, that you may rely upon my hearty co-operation . . . and to hope that your stay among us will be pleasant...
...Elysée as the Garde Répitblicaine clattered up last week, MM. Doumer and Laval alighted, there waited impatiently Bridegroom Doumergue. He was not going to stay for the whole ceremony, had given fair warning that he would make the next train for Toulouse...
Suppose this question were put to any grown-up: "Would you care to stay in one place for a week or more without some change of surroundings?" The answer would almost invariably be the negative. No one cares to stay permanently fixed. When water stands in one place for a while, it becomes stagnant and unfit. Just 30 with the human mind...
...kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty state" and will vouch for the truth. Most unfortunately he was called away suddenly to tutor a man in History 28 for an examination today, or he would have prolonged his stay indefinitely--until Quebec. The tutoring, by the way, has not been much of a success. The Vagabond knows just exactly as much as the man who is being tutored. They both progress at the same speed. It is terribly depressing business. However, this is supposed to be about New Hampshire...