Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters and last week, just before Bishop Cannon's Asheville conference, he said so in a letter addressed to the Atlanta Journal but meant for consumption by Bishop Cannon and friends. "Offering no criticism of others," Bishop Candler said he proposed, for himself, to stick to Scriptural...
Daily Telegraph: "Exceptional strength and iron will power-in short, a man who, finding a door that seemed to stick, might be expected to wrench it open. . . . lurching plane. . . . accidental plunge...
...Control stick: The lever by which the longitudinal and lateral (up and down, sidewise) controls of an airplane are operated...
...Sunday morning contain, sometimes, cocks. . . . And, what about it? There is no doubt that you will find the same flask of bitter liquor, the knife, volleys of cheers and curses, and many other things in many another American sport. Cockfighting is one of their sports and they will stick to it, same as Americans stick to theirs...
...along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...