Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma's Gore, who lost both eyes as a child, one by a playmate's stick, the other by an arrow from a crossbow...
...short, rotund Charles W. Seiberling, one of the rubber brothers from Akron. Delegate Seiberling filed his candidacy on the Hoover ticket without knowing that his older brother, Frank A. Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank A., who was in Florida at the time. "Stick to your guns," he said. Older Brother answered Younger Brother: "Stick to your guns, too, Charlie." To friends, Older Brother said: "It hasn't been necessary to lick Charlie for 25 years, but if I have to do it again I guess I probably can." Then, Charles W. Seiberling...
Roared Delegate John Weatherhead: "Politics never grew an ounce of tea or turned a wheel. Let's stick to trade and political independence...
...technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...automobile prices made possible by the removal of the war tax. The advantages of merging in business have been put to a long enough test so that now there is no general cry of a populace fearing control by the trusts whenever such an important transaction occurs: the Big Stick was buried in the distant past, and the present sees no necessity for resurrecting it. Where three or tour concerns are in essential control of an industry, the dangers of monopoly are absent, and still the benefit to be had from unified management and production exists...