Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago that I embarked on my career of mixing. A Boston saloon offered me my first opportunity along those lines. After a brief stay there, I obtained a job in Detroit, Michigan, where I remained for several years. In 1898 I came to the Parker House and I have been here ever since. Back in the '90s, two cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club...
...Tugwell of the Agricultural Department, who in some respects is the leading exponent of industrial revolution, has so far injected his views into the policies involved in drafting and administering food codes that George N. Peek, agricultural adjustment administrator, rebelled and let it be known that he wouldn't stay any longer of the dispute were not settled at once...
...Conference is the presentation to the President and Congress of a petition asking for the abolition of the R.O.T.C. Money is needed, however, for the trip to Washington. In order to raise sufficient funds, the NSL is asking for contributions from students. The two delegates intend to stay at the dormitories of one of the colleges in Washington while they are there...
...save" Warsaw, zealous Polish defenders released clouds of artificial fog, supposed to blind the enemy planes. Citizens, who had been warned day before to reinforce the windows of their homes and offices with paper strips, were sternly warned to stay indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut...
...arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...