Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signs were, however, that the French government will order a stay of the new law so far as the U. S. is concerned and trade will be continued on the new minimum tariff basis, which means an average increase of 40% over the old average of 60%, until either a treaty of commerce is signed or the negotiations break down...
...fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
...year was in sore straits, is much improved; for, meantime it has increased its gold reserves to $800,000,000 and holds nearly $1,000,000,000 in foreign currencies, which represents credit transactions made possible by the repatriation of French capital-a sign that confidence has returned to stay...
Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
...Author. Alfred Noyes became, a U. S. celebrity and adopted son in 1913, when the Lowell Foundation brought him over to lecture in Boston. He lectured also at many a U. S. college and Princeton invited him to stay on as visiting professor. The similarity between Princeton and his own Oxford did not escape him. He accepted, lectured often and melodiously, wrote verse about Princeton in the Revolution and in the then-brewing World War. Prior to The Torchbearers, his most cele brated poem was Drake, an epic of British empire-building. Aged 47, Mr. Noyes lives in London, sensitive...