Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 5.30 o'clock the Princetonians will turn the rink over to the Crimson sextet for a short workout in which to become familiar with the new conditions. The Hobey Baker rink is shorter than the Boston Arena and the lighting is different. The University squad will stay at the Princeton Inn tonight...
Then his enemies conceived the brilliant idea of denouncing him for his intimacy with some of the scoundrels who launched the French Panama Canal swindle. The tar of that brush of infamy stuck sufficiently to cost him the votes which he needed to stay in the Chamber...
Monday afternoon three of the nominees (Cardinal Cerretti must stay watchfully in Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban...
...book." This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang...
...newsstands, said its editors, in about six weeks. When people saw the names of those editors, when they read the statement issued by its underwriters, they wondered if here, at last, was not the ultimate evergreen of radical magazines, the hardy perennial that would come to stay...