Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Assembly filed out of their chamber, some 20 members of the Workers' Alliance charged down from the gallery. Ray Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker...
...goers what they expect. A painstakingly produced picture based on college life as it actually is might be a dismal failure. We college people might not even appreciate it. After all, twentieth century pioneering, especially in the cinema, comes a bit expensive, and the producer, if he wants to stay in business very long, must keep his eye on box office grosses, not on the embittered criticism of a few collegiate purists. He holds his job by the amount of black ink he can put on the company ledger, not by the number of artistic hurrahs he is able...
Helpful Joseph. The only bright spot in Anthony Eden's bitter week was the presence of a new French delegate. Hulking, outspoken Foreign Minister Flandin had to stay in France to do a little belated campaigning for the coming parliamentary elections. To take his place, he sent a predecessor in France's Foreign Office, silver-thatched, quick-witted Joseph Paul-Boncour. One of the smartest trial lawyers in France, he is much more sympathetic personally to Anthony Eden than Foreign Minister Flandin is. Puffing nervously at a cigaret, talking with pale fluttery fingers, M. Paul-Boncour explained France...
Hollywood children prepare to realize their parents' vicarious screen ambitions, but she did not stay there long. Dimpled, pretty, with yellow hair curled by her mother's fingers, she was picked by a scout for Educational Pictures. Her professional career started with a role in Baby Burlesks. Encouraged, Mrs. Temple worked hard submitting Shirley to all studios reported needing children. In 1934 she was cast to sing "Baby Take a Bow" in Fox's Stand Up and Cheer (TIME, April 30, 1934). The picture was feeble but Shirley was a hit. Hollywood distrusts infant performers. They...
George, the village doctor, she was a goddess. Mary went to stay with George's family, but she visited Sparkenbroke on the sly. In time's nick Sparkenbroke packed up and left for Italy, and Mary married George. Everyone but the reader thought her temptations were over...