Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burford: Losing altitude. She won't stay with me any more. I'm going over the side now. So long...
...committee noted that one Newark "Kingdom" is a firetrap, that others are crowded and insanitary. A Divine "bishop" had been accused of contributing to the delinquency of a 13-year-old girl by inducing her, against her parents' wishes, to stay three nights in his "Kingdom." Said a witness before the committee: "Women leave their husbands and homes because when you join the religion you cannot help yourself...
...last passengers to ride with President Roosevelt in his specially-built touring car, in which he had driven from dawn to dusk during his stay at Warm Springs, were Mrs. Roosevelt and her two inseparable companions, shaggy-haired Nancy Cook and schoolmarmish Marian Dickerman. With these the President drove to the Warm Springs railway station last week, through avenues of cheering neighbors and rows of khaki-clad CCC foresters. His fellow-travelers thought he had taken on a little weight...
...California, America's vast population of colored folk are hurriedly leaving their homes and setting off in their second-hand cars and old farm wagons for-they know not where. So electric is the atmosphere, so certain is a further outbreak of lynching, that the Negro dare not stay in one place...
...Please," pleaded an anxious, intelligent-looking man who entered Pasadena. Calif.'s city jail last week, "let me stay here until my memory returns." The officers in charge, accustomed to mental derelicts, concluded that here was an authentic case of amnesia, gave the man harbor. For several minutes his hand hovered over the jail register. Eventually he signed: "Poor Devil...