Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow did not deny a report that his wife was leaving "because of important social engagements." Earlier in the week the wife of Ambassador-Delegate Hugh Simons Gibson had returned to her children in Brussels. Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson was left the sole U. S. delegate's wife to stay on doggedly through the eleventh week of the Conference...
Somewhat cryptically Mr. Gandhi added: "I am preparing a message for the women of India, who, I am becoming more and more convinced, can make a larger contribution than the men toward attainment of independence. . . . The children, let them stay at home and spin while their parents go out to court jail...
...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink?they preferred talk. The Dean then figured how much he had saved by their refusal, gracefully presented each with half-a-crown...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...
...their migration, Pribilof seals parade in pairs or singly, not in a herd. They can stay under water for seven hours without coming up for air; after heavy storms sailors have seen them on the surface resting and wallowing in the waves. They feed upon squid, Alaska pollack, other small fish...