Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which stipulates that firearms may be sold only to buyers who have 1) a "certificate of good character" from a judge, and 2) no prison record. Another antiquated law unearthed by John Davis provides a $100 minimum fine for anyone who carries a "pistol, dirk, dagger, slingshot, handchain, night stick, sword cane, spear or bowie knife...
Ruthless Geometry. Back home after her victory in Paris and her quarter-final defeat at Wimbledon, Althea made a disappointing showing at Forest Hills, but she was sure by then that she would stick with tennis. She continued to work steadily with a new coach, Sydney Llewellyn, a Negro pro from New York with an unusual knack for teaching his rigidly defined theory of tennis. The game to Llewellyn is a ruthless exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just...
Ever since he first wooed the future Mrs. Graham with a mid-Depression vow ("Stick with me and we'll be on Easy Street"), Wichita's lively William L. Graham has been making the promise come true. He began with a $200 bank loan in 1936, and at 46 he is worth an estimated $20 million in Kansas oil and real estate. Along the way his talents for enterprise and friendship proved so overpowering that he once sold the late Dale Carnegie a house in Wichita an hour after they met. ("If I couldn't be myself...
...talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara Fritchie. "Here's the flag, Barbara, so stick that old grey head out the window." Says Barbara: "You pay me the money first, then I'll stick the old grey head out the window...
...Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill as a butcher, drained the brother's blood into a crock. Silvertop is reprieved (and thereupon tries to hang himself in his cell), but the Quare Fellow is doomed...