Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line of treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration...
Grand Duke of Coshocton: "Now, John, no double-crossing. We've got to stick together in order to stay apart. If we let anyone bring us together we're sunk...
Nicolas Socrates Politis, the Greek minister to France, reported that a "state of gravest anxiety" had descended on Greece, but Greek Dictator John Metaxas had no inclination to be the first to stick his neck out at the onrushing aggressors. Dictator Mussolini might next decide that Greece constituted a "grave menace" to Italian rights. Instead, Dictator Metaxas jubilantly announced that Greek "independence and integrity are absolutely assured," but failed to say whether Britain or Italy had assured them. Dictator Metaxas hinted that he would not oppose British occupation of Corfu, but that he would...
...parents and teachers who come to grief when they try to persuade children to do their bidding, science last week had cheering news. Data was gathered by research at University of Michigan on how to talk to moppets and make it stick...
...Edison, and the voices of a host of others in London around that period-Florence Nightingale, Sir Henry Irving, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Edison's staffs elsewhere recorded hundreds of others. But within a few years the gramophone industry had become too preoccupied with ragtime and Uncle Josh to stick to the course Edison had plotted...