Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campolo v. Scott. After elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
...mountains!" said Bandit Bogdanopoulos, winking shrewdly and wiping kidney grease from his sweeping yellow mustachios. "We asked the Greek Government for it and they gave it to us-just like that! It was an excursion. On this excursion was Senator Gheka and the two Generals, big stuck-up fellows. We held them for ransom, and we wrote to the Government: 'Pay us two million drachmas or we send you your generals' noses and your senator's ears...
Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
...ceremonially. In Rome it was called tibia utricularis. Colleges were formed for its instruction; Nero piped. Invading Romans took it to Britain. Early Britons named it the chorus. Itinerant pipers carried it farther into the Highlands and Iceland. The weird Asiatic music appealed to Celtic and Gaelic imaginations and stuck with them...
...Sable, a Negro, was Chicago's first inhabitant. A fugitive Kentucky slave, he lived there before blue-coated, pig-tailed U. S. soldiers occupied the banks of Garlic Creek. Then Fort Dearborn was wrenched from the soldiers by the Indians and for several years the garrison's burned bones stuck out of the sand...