Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek bachelors were returning to Greece with the firm intention of getting married. They were going back to find 800 docile, plump Greek maidens, to bring back to the U. S. with them again. They sought brides who would not make fun of their broken English, who would stay at home and mind the fruit store and raise plenty of children, who knew how to cook lamb kidneys with pilau. Many had already arranged their betrothals. As the Saturnia steamed out, others made a dash for the purser's office to make their choices from a sealed package...
...though they soon get out of breath. During the mating season they will chase creatures who trespass on their breeding grounds. Sharp-toothed, they can bite savagely. They live to be about 14 years old. They arrive at the Pribilof Islands early in May, three weeks before the cows, stay there until August. Each bull has a seraglio of from 30 to 100 cows...
...absolutely unoriginal lambasting of the so-called Science of Psychology. Of course, in the end, they all go old-fashioned, and rejoin for the sake of the kiddies. It is perhaps a bit shameful of a reviewer to criticize a play which was written for one purpose--to stay on Broadway--but on the other hand, as soon as the play is published in book form, higher standards than those of financial success on the Great White Way should be applied...
Visitors Will Stay at Commander...
...Speed's Sake. It takes a very special sort of nerve to fly 300 m.p.h. Because he possesses such nerve, and because it was anxious to fly faster than the rest of the world, the U.S. Navy permitted big, hard-boiled Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., to stay on special duty from 1923, when he won the Pulitzer race and set a U.S. speed record, until last week. After hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons...