Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's grab last week did not look like Poland's small-boy attempt to run off with a stick of candy while the big boys were killing the proprietor. It looked more like a step in a program of world redistribution whose outlines were consciously obscured, whose possibilities were unknown, perhaps even to the partners in the enterprise. Nothing suggested that Russia faced a fate like Poland's, the last country to share a grab with Germany, except the haunting recollection of Russia's new friends coming in her direction, armed to the teeth...
...this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those of his subordinates would now be examined for lack of bias as the nation watched his "every effort" to keep...
...questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors d'oeuvre is a useful word and not difficult to say, but it looks conspicuously un-English. If menu makers would spell it orderve, we could...
...colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk. Today these footloose reporters and copyreaders have nearly all died or settled down. The old timers who are left look back with nostalgia on the gaudier days of their profession, but stick to their jobs if they have jobs. Luckier than Newspaperman Broun last week were these hoary and, in their spheres, famed and typical oldtimers...
Again the atonement was spoiled, when a fond mother snatched her wailing baby from among the sacrificial twelve. When Willie came at last to the end of his story, he made the gesture of breaking a stick and said Ngahh, meaning "I break...