Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck, "he is a rascal," and went home...
...Chicago, one William Glauber and one Frederick Knauff, friends for years, gave each other black eyes. Reason: Mr. Knauff had a cold. Mr. Glauber, promising a cure, stuck large porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...
...week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with a pert and random feather stuck in the hat. Thus equipped, one asks; "Shall it be dogs or beaters...
...recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just as the President answered, "None," to a news correspondent who asked...
...Pittsburgh, celluloid-visored Joseph Castro fell asleep in somebody's office. Inspired by his snoring, a gum-chewing office joker removed a wad of moist substance from under his tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened...