Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of A. F. of T. is wiry, winsome Jerome Davis, onetime associate professor of practical philanthropy who was dropped from Yale's Divinity School ostensibly for budgetary reasons after publishing his Capitalism and Its Culture, and was paid a year's salary to stay away from Yale. "We must not," trumpeted Professor Davis, as the delegates arrived, "we cannot betray the organized workers of America by fighting the C. I. O. It is the historic mission of the A. F. of T. to support every progressive and successful labor movement. How can we possibly ignore...
...days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying ecstatically, "I am purified." His beautiful Spanish wife had abandoned him when he collapsed with fever. Heading...
...film might mark his own permanent farewell to Hollywood. The possibility of his retirement at his career's crest is not taken seriously at movie colony dinner tables. Last week Muni seemed to be of two minds. "I am going away for a while," he said, "and stay until I'm sick of it. If I like it better I may stay permanently...
...Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special, which runs to Miami for three or four months after the Christmas holidays, has had hostesses for five years whose duties are strictly social. They stay in the club car, keep games and music going...
...love with May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan), the sister of the prison's least pleasant inmate, Joe (Humphrey Bogart). However, the yard captain's sentimental dilemma does not seriously retard the drama of the changes which concrete walls make in the lives of men who have to stay behind them whether for professional or punitive reasons. Druggin (Barton MacLane), a bear cat for discipline but incapable of handling men, is replaced by Jameson, an army officer who tries to substitute psychology for solitary confinement. His first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard...