Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another Alice in Wonderland. Mary Poppins was, to say the least, a peculiar nursemaid. She came to the Banks family on a strong east wind, and firmly refused to give any references. Though her manner was formidable, the Banks children liked her at once, hoped she would stay. She was an efficient nurse, "never wasted time in being nice," was a great one for saying No or Humph. But she was in cahoots with all kinds of magical powers, astounded and captivated her charges by the series of delightful adventures she sprang on them. One night, to the children...
...immoral motion pictures and those which glorify crime or criminals. . . . I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement which show them as a matter of policy...
Eight years ago there were two Harvard freshmen who used to stay up nights to moon over ballet. One was short, one was tall but both were rich. Edward M. M. Warburg was Banker Felix Warburg's son. Lincoln Kirstein's father ran Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard Warburg and Kirstein started a Society for Contemporary Art. After graduation their violent interest in Modern Art continued. Last winter they finally fulfilled their youthful ambition by founding the School of American Ballet...
...cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives him a short answer and hurries to her husband's sickbed, where they...
...small installation field Mr. Carrier has many a competitor who wishes he would stay out. The big installation business he divides chiefly with York Ice Machinery Corp. and B. F. Sturtevant Co. which also get fat contracts for air-conditioning big buildings in & out of Washington. Carrier admits its prices are slightly higher, thinks the difference is saved in operating expense...