Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social service is a gripping work. Men may go into it with a sense of duty but they stay for the love of it," said R. W. Kelso '04, Director of the Boston Council of Charities, and chief speaker last night at the Annual Social Service Conference which followed a dinner held at the Phillips Brooks House...
...stay: look well my corpse to save...
...mother in the case is edging into middle age reluctantly. She has devices to stay beautiful; she has no brains; she has a lover. Her son's fiancee and the lover are attracted honestly; want to marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy...
...youth makes no friends in Cambridge, it is stupendously his own fault. I do not say that it is impossible for a Harvard student to go off by himself, dig a hole, lie down in it, and stay there--as he might not be able to do at a small college; I do say that those who affirm Harvard to be undemocratic or to value men for their money are either misinformed or defamatory. I could name plenty of men whom heaps of money did not save from social failure in Harvard College; and even more whom narrow means...
Tomski. One of those for whom the waiter would not function was Comrade Tomski, loquacious Russian, who expressed gratitude to Britain for allowing him to stay "a whole 14 days in England." Mr. Tomski spoke for three hours in his native tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski...