Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood she gained quick distinction for a quality unique in actresses under 45 - she would play anything. She was the only good-looking girl whom Paramount found willing to stick her face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile...
...photographic plates no bigger than a stick of chewing gum, astronomers can look at a spectrum so tiny that it must be viewed through a jeweler's eyepiece and tell what kind of atoms are dancing in a star trillions of miles away. Thus has astronomy advanced since Galileo first glimpsed the four big satellites of Jupiter and wondered what they were. The mod ern art of splitting up light into its com ponent colors, which disclose the chemical nature of the source, depends on a little thing called the diffraction grating. This is a plate of glass...
...Communists, Socialists and left-wing Radical Socialists who form the Popular Front can stick to their plan of united action through the run-off elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
...After a terrific bombardment the order is given to evacuate Douaumont, and in the chaos of the battle Captain Niggl gets back to safety. Lieutenant Kroysing is reported missing. Meantime Berlin, whose company is in charge of an ammunition dump, is the only one to keep his head and stick to his post during a bombardment. A well-meaning artillery officer recommends him for The Iron Cross. Only result is that Berlin is given a more dangerous job: scavenging for dud shells...