Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boss: "I am tired of hearing all this talk about how the honest average citizen should get into politics and not leave it to the machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...
Four days later the Greater St. Louis unexpectedly landed after 647 hr. 28 min. 30 sec., before a desultory crowd of 800. Explained the flyers: "A cracked crank case." Observed Manager Pickens: "Not enough money. They'd have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose...
...Primo Camera, Mediterranean monster, unfloored in the U. S.: permission from the U. S. immigration board to extend his U. S. stay until Dec. 31. "That is all I want," said he. "Time to become the pugilistic champion...
Next morning the two fathers entered the "courtroom." Reporters tried to follow. Commissioner Kegel excluded them, explained: "This is going to be a hot fight. Remarks might be passed which would make monkeys out of all of us. So you newspaper boys had better stay...
...year; he was pleased with the reception of his one-act opera Samuel Pepys in Munich; his new opera Asshurbanipal is scheduled for Berlin next season. He will go to Russia in November for two months as director of the Moscow Opera. If he likes it there, he may stay permanently. Then Conductor Coates began talking impetuously of something that was evidently of greatest importance and interest to him. He had seen Playwright Eugene O'Neill, had secured permission to put The Hairy Ape into operatic form. But the permission was only the first small step: "In composing music...