Word: stays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retorted Tom: "The noble lady will be well advised to stay outside the Socialist party until she understands what Socialism means." ¶ During a debate on proposed increase in the British and U.S. Navies John Harris, Liberal, asked the Government: "Will the British Government approach the United States Government concerning the possibility of another naval conference with the object of preventing a new race in the construction of this [cruisers] powerful type of warship...
...Huan Tung, aged 18, loves to be called plain " Henry" and his beautiful consort is named Elizabeth. Apparently these names were chosen because of Henry's fondness for Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth's admiration for the English Queen of that name. He is supposed to stay inside the Forbidden City and no outsider is supposed to enter therein to disturb the peace of the "Son of Heaven...
...opinion of Dr. James H. Breasted, who has just returned from a four months stay in Egypt, that "the race that launched a thousand ships" belonged not to a poetic ideal but to a very real person, may lie the seeds of a possible renascence of interest in the study of Greek. Dr. Breasted believes from examinations which he has been conducting among the entombed records of Tut-ankh-amen that Helen of Troy actually lived, and that the much doubted Trojan war was considerably more than a mere fight of fancy on the part of Homer...
...erected immediately at Tacoma, to serve as the Navy's Western station. Tests have shown that few men are needed to secure an airship to a mast, hundreds are required to take an airship in or out of a hangar; also that an airship can stay indefinitely at the mast, be refuelled and regassed there, have all but major repairs made when thus anchored in the open air, withstand all winds short of a hurricane...
...Benson-Doran ($2.00). The last word in literary delirium tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...