Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt they picked "Home on the Range." his favorite. For Mama Roosevelt they ordered "The Blue Danube" and "The Merry Widow Waltz" was played in honor of Sister Anna. For themselves & guests they chose "Stars Fell on Alabama," "June in January," "Flirtation Walk," "An Earful of Music," "The Continental," "Stay As Sweet As You Are," "Two Cigarets in the Dark." Meyer Davis on his own initiative provided an original "Harvard Glide," twitting the young Roosevelts for speeding, for bashing photographers...
...runs best in what are called "The Shires"-Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire, where gently rolling hills make it easy to stay with the hounds and the humid air makes for good scent. One of the noblest of the Shires' hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream...
...approach of winter they pull on skiing outfits and keep them on, except for the winter recess, until they exchange them for shorts in the spring. Most of the girls come from New England or New York. Many are debutantes. To go out with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running the store cooperatively, making a modest profit...
...White House he rushed eagerly, expecting to present his document at once to the President. Instead Pat McKenna, Presidential switchman, shunted him in to see Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. The President, said Mr. Mclntyre, just had too many appointments to see Mr. Ames that day. Perhaps Mr. Ames could stay over a day or two? Mr. Ames could not. So he left his program with Secretary Mclntyre...
...failed her egomaniac boss, attempted to walk it, was brought back with sunstroke and a change of heart. The salesman and the widow discovered they were affinities, the girl chums that they were Lesbians, the lovers that they were mismated. Seduced by a pretty Spanish girl, John decided to stay and listen to the nightingales. The strike over, the arresting semicolon lifted, the travellers went on, to finish their sentences in a new direction. Sadder and supposedly wiser, Julian and the jilted bride bore each other company to Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton...