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Word: stays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be because he has to. If and when he announces that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself, it will be because his prospects have faded and he is afraid to take the chance. In the last six weeks he has made his desire to stay evident in a hundred ways, and nowhere more plainly than in his conferences with the correspondents. He wants it but he doesn't want to fight for it-and he won't. . . . In the whole of his political career there is no record of a fight." After listing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Talk | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Paul Poiret, Paris Couturier: "Writing in the January Forum, I prophesied that women, led by the U.S., will soon be wearing trousers. 'And,' said I, 'they will not be a mere short-lived fad; they will become as inevitable as bobbed hair, which is here to stay.' I accompanied my pronouncement with sketches of prospective trouser-designs: The 'Shepherd,' the 'Charleston,' the 'Elastic Sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: people: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...stay at home, the vagabond whose activity is restricted to the north bank of the Charles, there are only two musical events of especial importance; the monthly performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theatre, and the concert of the Pierian Sodality. The latter takes place this evening at 8.15 in Brattle Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

Twelve hundred bankers, businessmen, professors assembled at the Economics Club dinner in Manhattan last week; heard General Lincoln C. Andrews and Wayne B. Wheeler, the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, say that Prohibition is here to stay whether the Wets like it or not. "And what is more," said General Andrews, "it will be hard to get a drink of real beer next season." Laughter and boos from respectable citizens greeted this pronouncement; General Andrews was forced to cut short his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Potpourri | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...would be a convenient time of day for such gentlemen as habitually stay up all night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Solves Problem of Overemphasis--Suggests Playing Yale Game at Dawn--Should Prove a Test of Enthusiasm | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

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