Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway to the Bowery. This week Landhaven's students wound up a month-long stay in New York. They had camped out in the gymnasium of a settlement house on Manhattan's lower East Side, and earned their keep by replastering the walls, painting, repairing chairs, and building a handicraft shop in the settlement house. They had toured the museums, the Bowery and Chinatown. They had also seen, among other plays, The Respectful Prostitute and A Streetcar Named Desire...
...passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before that you were determined to stay in Berlin," said a Frankfurt shopkeeper. "When you started these endless supply planes we knew you meant business...
...professional trick," snorted the Tory Daily Express at these outbursts. "The more the Tories hate Mr. Bevan, the higher will be his prestige in his party." Just the same, Labor Party leaders who knew they had to woo former Tories in order to stay in power were appalled by the Bevan outburst (see cut). On Bevan's Chelsea house someone painted: "Vermin Villa-home of a loudmouthed...
...guess you might say," she concluded dryly, "that I am overworked and underpaid. But I stay in teaching because I like it. There's a satisfaction to it that is missing from most jobs-even better paid ones. The realization that you are making an important contribution to the lives of individuals gives you the zest...
...have all my colors before me, and I play with them. With my stick, I direct them onto the canvas. The black is the bass and the blue is the piano. I say to the yellow, 'I am coming for you,' and to the pink, 'Stay quiet.' Yes, when I paint I am the conductor-like Toscanini...