Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife Evelyn spent a whole summer with him in sweltering Washington because, as she explained: "If Martha Washington could stick it out here with General Washington, I could stick it out here with...
...British Scout law of Lord Baden-Powell is long and rambling, the U. S. Scout law brief, better written. British Law No. 2 says: "A Scout is loyal to the King and to his officers and to his parents, his country and his employers. He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy or who even talks badly of them." The U. S. Law No. 2 says simply: "A Scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due: his Scout Leader, his home and parents and country." Aside from...
...behind, but on the average the survivors will be considerably healthier than their predecessors of previous seasons. Instead of depending on brand new shows whose authors are willing to waive royalties on the chance of a producer's seeing and liking their work, typical 1937 rural playhouse will stick to tried & true, love & laughter shows from bygone seasons. More than one summer stock company will offer Let Us Be Gay, Candlelight, The Second Man, Meet the Wife, not the least of whose virtues is that royalty rates are low. They will be performed by ambitious youngsters from little theatres...
...Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far," originally used by Roosevelt I to describe his methods of coping -with the Xew York Republican machine...
...picture has a carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing up his phrase about the Big Stick*at a Cabinet meeting, which he leaves to "go for a ride with Alice...