Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what we seek on a big weekend ... We want the chance to behave irrationally, even to be plain silly, without intolerant glances and critical words from other people .... If you honestly enjoy drinking yourself into limbo, howling obscenities and behaving like an animal, then go ahead .... But please stay away from me and don't drive," she added...
Forty-one years is a long time to stay with a single organization, and when the organization in question is the Cambridge Police Department, or any police department, for that matter, it is an especially long time...
...four children (a brother died of high-school football injuries) of Country Editor Norwood S. Davies and Minnie M. Quigley Davies, still sprightly at 77 ("She'd play bridge three nights a week yet." says Judge Davies, "and all night if you'd stay with her"). Ronald delivered 125 copies of the daily Crookston Times for $1.50 a week, had his knuckles regularly rapped with a ruler in parochial school by a Sister Milburga. "God love her, she's gone," says Judge Davies. "I remember her very well. Instead of holding your palm...
...children, furniture, food. "This," explained one woman, "is not charity. It's just a little help for some neighbors who need it. They were such wonderful people and helped the community in so many ways." Said Jean Humphrey (who plans to continue her dancing classes): "I want to stay here in Worthington. All of a sudden, I have discovered the best friends I have ever known. It's where everything is out in the open, where everybody knows . . . We'll start all over again...
...this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years-if, as Durant puts it, "the Reaper will stay his hand...