Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only regret is that I cannot stay longer. It was difficult to get away. His Majesty was good enough to let me get out of the country for this visit and the time of my stay has been stretched to seventeen days...
...carried back a thousand pleasant memories of my stay in your country, but there were also some mistakes made which can be rectified on the next trip...
Toward midnight four workmen were screwing down the coffin lid. "Wait! Stay a moment!" called a voice out of the gloom. The workmen started, then stepped back respectfully as the Governor-General and the President of the Irish Free State entered. The coffin lid was raised, and more candles were brought...
...residents to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, has cost millions of dollars. There the "objects of art" in paint, marble, bronze, tapestry, are mostly by world-famed masters. Their owners go off summering comforted by thought of the heavy insurance policies, faithful watchmen, alert elevator attendants provided to protect the expensive stay-behinds...
...about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently got weary of the creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...