Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will stick to my workaday business of prognostication and set you all straight on what the weekend holds in store. I am forced modestly to admit that I was pretty good last week. The amount of money I saved Princeton men (I'm not one to bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...
Science, a weekly, took out its measuring stick and added up the column-inches devoted by newspapers to the branch of life and learning it represents...
Bernarr Macfadden was christened Bernard A. He dropped the final "D" from his first name because "Bernarr," unusual, catches the curiosity of readers such as Dean Slade Miles. Many public folk, particularly actresses, alter names thus, on the theory that they stick easier in the public mind...
...girls get as much out of their scout work as boys? Why not? Much the same in character is required of them. They must have courage. It takes just as much courage to stick to the housework until it is done as it does to go out and meet a bear...
With the aid of a knife, a big strong stick and a gun no cop could hear...