Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith died in 1891 and left him her husband's entire fortune. The blood relations had a fit. The contest over the will lasted ten years. 'Pifex, now become a sour and suspicious recluse, won. He kept his window shades down. Cats were the only guests at his table. Lawyers were his only acquaintances. In 1892 he was writing to the class secretary of his "old love for our Alma Mater." He left the bulk of his estate for the erection of those three Smith Halls, James Smith, Percy Smith and George Smith Halls, where the freshmen are gathered...
Cleopatra's Needle, famed Egyptian obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park, suffers considerably from the frost. The late Art Dealer George Jean Demotte, who presented many ancient sculptures to U. S. museums, always advised that they be kept indoors although in their original state they may have adorned European exteriors...
...asked me if I had a license. I said, "No, I am a poor man. I have not had the dog long. He came in here from the street. He was hungry and I fed him. I could not find his owner, so I kept him. He is a good dog and makes no one any trouble. If a license is necessary, I will...
...Socialite Sonny Whitney. Poloist Tommy Hitchcock, were her good friends (she says). In Chicago Stanley Joyce came into her life. Her marriage with Joyce taught her the last refinements of her peculiar talent: how to spend money. Perhaps that is why, in all her subsequent vicissitudes, she has gratefully kept his name. One week in Manhattan she spent nearly a million dollars. Just shopping. He bought her a house in Coral Gables, Miami, and the neighbors complained of the stink from her monkey house. Said Peggy: "Can I change the direction of the wind...
...Author. Men, Marriage and Me was evidently "ghosted" (in large part), but the ghost has been kept in the background by Peggy Joyce's publishers, who deny that Journalist Basil Woon...