Word: staying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
...saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...
...stayed there all that day, teaching that boy and sampling the drinks, and by closing time the fellow knew how to mix 'em. That's the kind of family I come from, and I'm willing to stay here right now and advise the members of this body along good, sound constructive lines...
About 3 o'clock: "If we stay here much longer, Mr. President, it will soon be time for the senior Senator from Texas, Mr. Sheppard, to make his annual speech on Prohibition. . . . Men are yawning; men's eyes are bleary; men's souls are tired; their feet are sore; their heads are heavy; they are needing rest; they are needing sleep; they are needing nourishment; and it is only two days from Saturday, when most of them will want to take a bath...
...addition to the leaders who have been referred to, get the consent of the new members of the Senate, taking into consideration the fact that within the last half hour each one of them has gone out and drunk three cups of coffee, which will enable them to stay here for another twelve hours while the Senator from Louisiana speaks...