Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SELL MORE PERFUME TO AMERICAN WOMEN, PERMIT ME TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. THE PROBLEM IS NOT TO SELL WOMEN BUT TO SELL MEN, WHO BUY 75% OF ALL PERFUME WORN BY WOMEN. MEN BUY THE PERFUME THEY WANT WOMEN TO WEAR, AND WOMAN WOULD DO WELL TO STAY WITH THAT PERFUME AS LONG AS SHE STAYS WITH...
...Goldfine. Adams testified that "particularly when driving, it was an accommodation to me to stop overnight on a trip from my home [in Lincoln, N.H.] to Washington and vice versa. Mr. Goldfine on one occasion said to me, 'If there is any time when you would like to stay in a suite which I have in a hotel in Boston, I hope you will occupy it, because it is there, paid for, and I would be glad to have you enjoy the accommodations.' This...
...given to sentiment, running to fat, the kind of woman whose world is bounded by porch and kitchen, husband and kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire who works in his father's office and is obviously going to make out. The middle one is a girl (Shirley MacLaine) and pretty enough...
...never was, the way you and me never knew love could be like." She slaps him then, and he walks out, and the next day he comes back for his clothes. "I've tried; I've done my best," he tells her. "I've stayed and I've provided. Now I'm not going to stay here and grow old and die. I've wanted something better than this. You had the children, [and] you loved them the way you could never love a man." Alma doesn't understand, but she forgives. "Jack...
...named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course, is the poor shrimp and Hilda the voracious anemone), the pair spends...