Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved. Neither could the District Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...That's what makes Bill Robinson's dancing what it is: marvelous technique--so much that he can just relax and jump right along with the tune. It the jitterbugs will learn this trick in dancing just as the white bands have to learn it is playing, and will stay off the stand, and not kill too many gorphs, life will be much happier for all concerned...
...assembled potentates, sitting on leather benches under coats of arms emblazoned on the Chamber's paneled walls, the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, who is very pally with the princes on social occasions, told them to: 1) reform their governments; 2) stay at home to rule instead of spending eight months of the year, as many do, in Cannes, Biarritz, Paris; 3) stop spending revenues on their own pleasures. Britain had been scared into this unprecedented dressing down by the success of Mohandas Gandhi's recent fast to force reforms in the state of Rajkot (TIME, March...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson, is bland and diplomatic. His chief arguments against compulsory health insurance are: 1) the U. S. needs no planned medical care, for its citizens are in excellent health [despite Government statistics to the contrary]: 2) political appointees would run insurance systems. Doctors, says Dr. Emerson, must stay out of politics...
...they concentrated on the moderns that Stock was too busy to play. Some of them were not worth playing. But all of them were news. Soon the Illinois Symphony was rated as Chicago's spiciest highbrow musical institution, and Chicago's wide-awake concertgoers were afraid to stay away for fear of missing something good...