Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tragedy has no appeal to me, comedy is my trade, and I intend to stick to that form of drama", asserted Frank Craven, 'who is playing in. "The 19th Hole" at the Hollis Theatre. "I have tried Shakespearean tragedies, and must say that I am not inclined toward them...
with the subject mater of the remaining chapters: "The Lungs and the Blood," "Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
After absorbing the thought, as well as those facts which naturally stick in the memory, of "Living Machinery", one is left with a perceptibly broadened vision, and with a greater sense of what scientific research has done, and will continue...
...skill and discrimination. As a study of manners and morals of the period, it is well worth reading. But it must always be considered not as history, so much as an overtone to history. And those who are preparing for the mid-year examination in Histoty 30a had best stick closely to their faithful Hazens...
...marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...