Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retire on a comparable income today, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. noted sadly last week, an American needs an income of $13,221. Only one out of a hundred families are that well fixed. In 1947, an American, like the Red Queen, has to run faster & faster to stay where...
Still the rains fell. Gradually, inch by boiling, brown inch, the angry Mississippi crept higher on its banks. By this week, The River had smashed eight levees, flooded about 25,000 acres. Unless the sun came out promptly, and to stay, the people of the U.S. middle border would remember June 1947 for a long, long time...
...room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash off to a regimental dinner, bought up several girls and later disposed of them at a profit-which, of course, went to charity too. One of his transactions involved 27-year-old Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kennedy, of Boston...
Since Canada became a confederated nation in 1867, an estimated 4,000,000 Canadians have emigrated to the presumably greener pastures of the U.S. Many a patriotic Canadian, alarmed by this trend, has urged his countrymen to stay home. Last week an American preached the same warning-but for a new reason...
...wife of New York Times Correspondent Brooks Atkinson (whose last year's Russian dispatches won him this year's Pulitzer Prize), Oriana was never permitted to leave Moscow during her stay in Russia. But her restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites...