Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he solemnly: "The people want it." By this week Sam's idea had spread to other saloons in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, and Sam was getting more trade in a day than he had drawn before in a week. The nickel beer was here to stay, Sam announced...
...cost $12 to $28 a day, American plan, to stay at one of the bigger hotels in the Bermuda Hotel Assn. (president: Sir Howard Trott). This was less than Miami or Nassau charge, but far more than people paid in Bermuda's prewar horse & buggy days. Some of the fanciest price-boosting had occurred along Hamilton's staid Front and Queen Streets. Trimingham Bros, asked $24.24 for English flannel slacks that sold prewar...
...groups at Harvard which have been pushing joint education in the larger sense. Perhaps this move, coming from what has been the area of deepest reaction to the new educational setup, will serve to convince the scoffers that students in the College think this thing is here to stay...
...Gotta Stay Happy," an adaption of a Saturday Evening Post serial, has a number of "guaranteed" comedy situations and "funny" lines, but they all expired years ago with age and exhaustion. Stewart and Fontaine try hard enough, but they never succeed in convincing the audience, and don't seem to persuade themselves of the worth of the whole enterprise...
...Stay-at-Home. At home, with his handsome wife Elizabeth (a sister of ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius***), Trippe is a relaxed and placid parent, a two-Scotches-before-dinner man who likes to hear all about his four children's day in school. The Trippes see little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once...