Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant, the Hudson plant. He received the silver medal of the Architectural League for Detroit's Fisher buildings. He belongs to six golf clubs, but has never played golf. With his wife, he sailed for Europe last week, to visit, not Russia, but "a nice warm place" to stay a few weeks. In Europe he will visit cathedrals, sketch, have a holiday, come home...
...Paris (Fox). The assumption of special characteristics belonging to special classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This...
...Stay on Volcanic Peak...
Perhaps the most fruitful and intensive work was accomplished in a three weeks stay high on Mt. Irazu, most noted volcanic peak in the country. Here at an altitude of from 7000 to 9000 feet above sea level in a region of oak forests, open pastures, and deep gorges, the rainy season offered unusual collecting. Among many other things, the return represented 200 species of fleshy fungi, popularly speaking, mushrooms and toadstools, which are totally new to science. During early December a profitable sojourn was made at the Research Station of the United Fruit Co. at Siquirres...
...Department announced detailed plans for the pilgrimage of 6,730 gold star widows and mothers to the European graves of their War dead. By act of Congress last spring, the pilgrims will be given not only free transportation but also allowances for food, tips, taxi fares, incidentals. They may stay two days in New York, two weeks in Europe. Guides and interpreters will accompany them to U. S. cemeteries, six in France, one in Belgium, one in England. Most of the women will go next summer, the rest within three years...