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Word: stickful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...They're so untidy; their knees and elbows stick out in the wrong places. I felt like buying some of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshman Finds Cambridge What She Expected; Amazed by Untidy Harvard Students | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...foremost historian of our time, Professor Bruce Hopper, to present to you today's enactment of the world's news. Unlike most advertisers, Wrigley's has no control over the program to be presented, but is content to sit back, as you are doing now, and chew a stick of Wrigley's while listening to the news as Professor Hopper has prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...Professor Bruce Hopper through the courtesy of the makers of Wrigley's gum. And now, these are the days for fall motoring, for beautiful trips through the country to see the foliage. Next time you step into your car, buy a package of Wrigley's gum, and chew a stick while driving. you will find a renewed pleasure in motoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Wouldn't Accept Undergraduate's Play, So Now He's Had it Produced on Broadway | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

...oldtime Broadway producer is 73-year-old William Augustin Brady, father of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Grace George. In a Saturday Evening Post reminiscence last spring, Mr. Brady remarked, apropos topical productions: "A showman often has to stick pretty close to the news to get the most out of his public." While summering at Lakewood, Maine, Showman Brady has lately been sticking close to the financial news-so close that last week he was in it. On this occasion he was concerned with getting the most out of his stock rather than his public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brady, Baldwin & Boom | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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