Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly he remembered that he had other flies to catch. He would have liked to stay and defeat the British loan, but-"Four peckerwoods down in Mississippi [are] trying to take my job away from me." Would the Senate give its unanimous consent to his absenting himself until after the July 2 primaries? The Senate gave its unanimous consent...
...Boston Bank" (as Argentines call the Argentine branch of Boston's First National) prepared to get along with Perón on his terms. Said the Boston Bank's Vice President W. Latimer Gray: "We've been in business 30 years there, and expect to stay at least 30 more...
...room Brown Hotel, Louisville's largest, has turned down an average of 1,000 room requests a week for the past two months. Louisville's Police Chief A. E. Kimberling broadcast a nationwide warning: "Stay home unless you're the rugged outdoor type." In Manhattan dailies, an airline advertised direct flights to the Derby...
Says Elizabeth Arden: "A beautiful horse is like a beautiful woman." An ugly horse doesn't stay long in Arden's barn, even if he can outrun Satan. About two mornings a week she shows up at the track to make sure her "darlings" don't get too much fresh air, or too little. She worries about flies biting them, and orders screens. Her horses once came down with a misery, and Arden ordered them rubbed down with her Ardena skin tonic instead of horse liniment, which, she said, smelled terrible. The trainer told her the stuff...
...Council had pointed out that most places of entertainment opened at eight, thereby leaving a student no place to go in the time lag after supper, but the Masters pointed out that a couple, having left the House for supper "might as well stay out." To the argument advanced by the Council that the proposed change would not violate the principles already established by the Oxford Card system, the Masters replied merely that--with the College working its way back to its traditional position, no further relaxation was desirable...