Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, vehement, unscrupulous Leon Degrelle, whose Rexist Party in Belgium spells Fascism, failed utterly last week to make his recent charges of corruption against popular, democratic and sorely tried Premier Paul van Zeeland stick. After examining the mud slung (TIME, Sept. 13), the Senate upheld Professor van Zeeland 121-to-6 and the Chamber, vindicating him 130-to-34, hailed his "integrity and disinterestedness." In agreeing that van Zeeland had a perfect right to receive $11,250 from the Bank of Belgium as a "bonus" for work he did before becoming Premier, Belgium's legislators sharply indicated that...
...corps was giving a dinner for U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson to celebrate his thirtieth year of diplomatic service. Shortly after midnight the bantering, toasting diners heard the sudden scream of sirens. They knew they were about to be raided from the air, but decided to stick it out. Through the moonlit sky roared a squad of Japanese bombers, plunked incendiary bombs on the capital's poorer districts. Three times they returned, until the more congested quarters of the city were in flames. One hundred and fifty coolies, trapped in squalid mud huts, were burned alive...
...Bradley survey showed that of 207,000 Hupmobiles licensed in the U. S., 57 % were still being driven by their original owners, that 78% of Hupmobile owners wanted to "stick to Hupp...
...Hupp's faithful owners buy the new car the company will break even on a production of about 1,500 cars a month. A strike is the last thing he looks for from Hupp's prospective 1,200 workers, believing that unionized or not they will "stick with us and help get Hupp going...
...thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried away an impression of Fascism "as disagreeable as bones that stick in the teeth." The first requisite for a pleasant tour, says Madame Ichikawa, is to know the words for "thank you" and "lavatory." Much interested in intimate conveniences, from what she could make out in going through historic castles over Europe she "often wondered if such noble personages as Elizabeth...