Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That if he's dirty he will stay...
Facing the destructive side of war, Major General Edward Croft, Chief of Infantry, U. S. A., took pains not to belittle the future. Said he: "We know that there will be great fleets of aircraft and great fleets of tanks. We know that motorization and mechanization are here to stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...
...unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder, tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends...
...annexed to his other $50,000,000. Mr. Powell is called upon by Mr. Tracy to mend things, and his strategy involves a nominal marriage with Spencer's longsuffering but not over-patient girl, Miss Harlow. The latter, utterly baffled by William's willingness to let the marriage stay nominal, obeys the cinematic law of things, and decides that she doesn't want it to stay nominal. But William loves Myrnaz, and Myrna loves Bill...