Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specific Effects. Scalpers are now free to charge any price they wish for theatre tickets; but the larger Manhattan agencies immediately announced that they would stick to the 50c fee, "unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College: "Some men amused themselves and my white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards...
...horizontally 13 ft. 9¼ in. from the floor, vaulted over it. In so doing he had broken the world's record for indoor pole-vaulting, 13 ft. 8¼ in., held by Charles Hoff, doubtful amateur of Norway. Excited gentlemen in dinner jackets rushed forward, raised the stick to a height of 14 ft. ¼ in., urged Sabin Carr to break the outdoor record (13 ft. 11¼ in., also held by Mr. Hoff). Mr. Carr tried, could not oblige...
...second ten minutes Lane swept across the ice and cracked the puck with a vicious backhander that was deflected and rolled gently toward the Crimson net. Morrill had been drawn from his post, and with no one on guard. Coady reached out and with the tip of his stick turned the disc aside, saving what would have been the winning score. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Tudor, Gross l.w. r.w. Rogers, R. Fryberger Scott, Chase c. c. Gardner, Bayler Zarakov, Stanley r.w. l.w. W. Fryberger Clark, Coady l.d. r.d. Hardy Ellison, Stanley r.d. l.d. Lane, Shea Morrill g. g. Sott...