Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced Mr. Hughes to stay away from the Court from March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...
Clara Driscoll and E. B. Germany have one thing very much in common: they are co-chairmen of the Texas Garner-for-President Club (five rooms, nine employes in Dallas). Proceeding on Garner's friend Emil Hurja's theory that early leaders stay on top, last week Mr. Germany and Mrs. Driscoll unmistakably pushed chaparral Jack Garner into the 1940 Presidential race† on a national scale. Over their signatures the T. G. F. P. Club appealed to 40,000 ranking Democrats throughout...
Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
Early last month when she arrived, late one afternoon, a chill wind was blowing a gale out of the east. The clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...
Water fights in Winthrop House may be fine. Everyone has a good time and no bystanders are harmed unless they walk out of doors carelessly. But let these little affairs stay inside the court. Once outside they may come up against senses of humor which are not hyper-developed like those of college students. Harvard and Cambridge are mated, even though they may be incompatible. Reality says to each to make the best...