Word: stays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
...Frankfurter group thought the court should stay in the well-defined grooves left by precedent. Only then, they believed, would the people have any idea of what to expect from justice, what the rules were by which they built and traded, married and divorced, lived, paid taxes, and died...
Last week, as much of the U.S. sweltered, people were humming a bouncy new jukebox favorite called Baby, It's Cold Outside. It was all about a girl who kept protesting that she had to go home and a boy who kept insisting that she stay. Outside, he warned, the snow was knee-deep. Queasy NBC first banned the lyrics as too racy, then decided they contained nothing provably prurient, and put the tune on the air. Baby hit the hit parade and began climbing...
...China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks up, with her reasons for saying "goodnight" getting sugar-coated neverminds, line by line...
That Man. Feeling out of sorts, Richard decided to begin an indefinite stay at home. Among other things he wanted to consider the case of an unidentified man who had left a sealed manuscript at his office with instructions that it was not to be opened without permission. During the weeks at home, Zoe fortified him with such cryptic postcard messages as "Quit biting your nails" and "I suggest you do more knitting." But Richard was up to more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger...