Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avenue from the Supreme Court, directly across the plaza from the Capitol. His colored chauffer, going off duty, knocked at the door of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson's apartment. Mrs. Robinson was home in Little Rock and the Senator was sitting alone. Would the Senator like him to stay around, he inquired. No, no, the Senator was quite all right. He didn't need anybody to stay with...
...having assembled the Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted, but again for a spot far from the limelight. After a conference with his friend Franklin Roosevelt, he packed himself off for a ten-week stay near Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. His baggage was loaded with work. The President had given him the assignment of preparing the Roosevelt state papers, one volume telescoping four years as Governor, one volume for each of the first four years in the White House...
George Trivers held his story until he was well away from Annapolis: Instructors had treated him all right but midshipmen warned, "Nigger, stay away from us." During drill his toes were literally stepped on. In the gymnasium he could not pick up a basketball without having it snatched away. He went without sleep because the white boys pounded on the walls until the room seemed ready to cave in. Weak or strong, George Trivers decided enough was enough...
...Palace of Holyroodhouse, where the King and Queen were to stay for nearly a week, everything was spick & span. Ready laid out for them was the cutlery, plate and napery provided-to encourage royal visits-by the late Sir Alexander Grant, biscuit tycoon, great Scottish patriot and boyhood friend of James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
...Home-Philadelphians who stay home for the summer swelter. Those who like music go to the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts at Robin Hood Dell to console themselves. There last week 3,000 Philadelphians could almost imagine themselves out of the sticky, uncomfortable city when Mary Binney Montgomery and her troupe danced their own version of George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Miss Montgomery's choreography followed closely Gershwin's sparkling musical account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily...