Word: stays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Horween had been delayed a day because of business engagements in Chicago. He will stay the remainder of this week and return again for the final week...
...Habberler will also deliver two lectures during his stay at Harvard, one today and one next Tuesday. Although a comparatively young man. Dr. Habberler is already a statistician of considerable reputation, and in his particular field, that of index numbers, he is unrivaled in Europe. He is lecturing in this country as the representative of the German univerities on a fellowship supported by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...again last week, as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, a benefit performance which made $7,500 for his Sir Wilfred Grenfell's medi cal mission in Labrador. Lest his audiences should fail to count themselves as blessed, the Great One let it be known that next year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder for vodka...
...Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself...
...Sherrill, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, was Bishop Garland's first choice. A graduate of Yale, aged only 38, Dr. Sherrill is popular, attractive. During the War he was an A. E. F. chaplain. Offered the Philadelphia position last May, Dr. Sherrill graciously explained that he preferred to stay in Boston...