Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only not invited to stay at the White House but also refused an audience by the President in spite of the fact that her affectionate disposition was attested by all acquaintances on her arrival at the Capital, a rufous-bellied wallaby, sent to Mr. Coolidge by a Tasmanian admirer, was shipped direct to the Washington zoo with the President's request that she be taken care of. She was given temporary quarters in the antelope house, although not related to them...
This device is to Europe that its applications in an academic way are not difficult to foresee. The night before examinations some assistant in a course need only conduct an exhaustive review. Nobody will go to it, of course, for it will be broadcasted. Students stay at home and retire early, headphones in place. Next morning they awake refreshed and go forth to examinations with every fact stowed away in the brain. Then there will be an end of college failures, for every one knows, theory to the contrary notwithstanding, that examinations test only facts. Parents will he delighted. Students...
...play that was written 150 years ago, assuming a capable performance, is pretty much of a fixed quantity, so far as box-office success is concerned. Those whose tastes incline to the classic will patronize it, and not quite succeed in filling all the seats,--everyone else will automatically stay away. This is unfortunate in the case of "The School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given...
During his stay here, Lincoln will hold individual conference at the office of the Graduate Secretary of the Union from 2 to 4 o'clock each afternoon this week; he will also speak informally to groups of editors from the University publications; and to members of several of the composition courses in the University...
There is still a Tribune in Chicago. Last week it published an announcement: "Mr. Patterson will establish his headquarters in New York to administer the affairs of the News and Liberty. Colonel McCormick will stay in Chicago and manage the Tribune and the paper mills." Where two men had stood together to manage one paper, they must stand apart to manage three. And the deduction? "The bulldog's tail," said reasoners, "is making a million wags...