Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison, set their bail at $25,000 apiece. When two days later, an unknown benefactor turned up with their bond, the partners became thoroughly alarmed. "We don't want to go out," they anxiously told Mr. Foley. "None of our people bailed us out. We want to stay in." Mr. Foley found that the same man who had arranged bail for one of the defendants, "Big John" Petruzelli, had arranged the witnesses' bond. Wishing not only to keep his witnesses secure but also alive, the prosecutor had their collective bail raised to $750,000. An atmosphere of mystery...
...unbelievably calm, good-natured, efficiently hardworking, she had run the Shaw household ever since her mother's death. Idealized type of what a farm woman should be, Jen was as understanding as the next one, never bothered her head about not being appreciated; she was well contented to stay forever where Providence had put her. It was Jen who found time, over & above all her mending, cooking, sewing and cleaning, to keep the Shaw family running smoothly. When Ed's black New England sullenness was too much for the pretty school-teacher he was going to marry...
...camp by means of funds which up to this year have been used for the annual Phillips Brooks House dinner, according to E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate secretary of the House. Well over $130 was spent last year for the banquet, a sum which will pay two weeks' stay in camp for about 15 Boston children...
...determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft. of water off Block Island in 1925 most Navy men thought it was there to stay. There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea. Nonetheless a salvaging expedition under Captain King, then commander of the Submarine Base at New London, went out to try. Commander Edward Ellsberg, who directed the divers and occasionally went...
...will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left to do. Ronnie and Claude do it by beating Bogard...