Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost me a lot of whiskey but I succeeded...
Even Bedsheets. Of all European countries, France was most enthusiastic in welcoming tourists and foreign exchange. Railways were mending their torn roadbeds, the glamorous Blue Train to the Riviera was back in service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
...that, Minnie got a new outfit, went off for a week's free stay in Hollywood, to hobnob with movie stars...
...supplies were soon exhausted: sales were estimated at 10,000 glasses in a day. Because many a farmer had left his meat ration coupons home, grocers had a field day. Said one: "I sold more bananas and sardines than I'll ever sell again one day if I stay in business 100 years...
...foibles and turned to painting what the Met's Director Francis Henry Taylor describes as "the ample American landscape" (he concentrated on harvest scenes). But even after they returned to Manhattan, most of his Paris friends felt themselves closer to Paris than to the prairie, and some brilliant stay-at-homes (Burchfield, O'Keeffe) felt the same...