Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silly ass if I thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...Francisco, 5,000 resolute feminine socialites agreed to ignore all invitations to liquor-livened social functions. If they should happen on an unconstitutional party unaware, however, they conceded they would stay, but not drink...
...present his assistant is lone Robinson of California, onetime helper of U. S. Artist Rockwell Kent. In the Kent Manhattan household she lived for a year, working on colored illustrations for Voltaire's Candide. Later she went to southern France, hired a peasant's house, planned to stay and paint. The house had no hot water, no heating, no light; Artist Robinson fell sick, returned to Los Angeles, whence she went to Mexico City...
...feller, we're juniors. This is all the furniture we've got so far. Maybe we'll get some beds before the year's over--if we stay...
...grand larcency. Senora Vincenta Garcia had bought some lots from him, had failed to pay for them. When he sought to recover them, she charged she was being cheated. The Judicial Police advised him that "Cuba would feel happier if he would return to the U. S. and stay there, thus avoiding trouble and unpleasantness...