Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to make a symphony orchestra out of my band. Why is it that every reporter annoys me with that same question? Jazz is my field. I only wish the symphonies would stay on their side of the fence. They're even writing symphony scores with saxophone parts...
...annual collection of best short stories edited by Mr. Edward J. O'Brien for the last fourteen years no longer needs a reviewer's praise. It has arrived, so to speak, and looking to the future, let us hope it is here to stay. Previous issues have been so well thought of that they have found their way into the college short story writing courses where examples of the best are desirable...
Miss Longfellow is immortalized in four lines of her father's verse, and with her name there remains much that shall stay as long as Harvard is Harvard...
...Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency to stay with sympathy the progress of disease...
...wise to ballyhoo any skyrocketing dauber who happens to be the vogue. But occasionally the critical pundits suspect a novice of immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this bitter ordeal by familiarity. At length the enduring works are borne with punditical hosannas to the Louvre. The rest descend in devious channels to oblivion...