Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the Northern Westchester Bank of Katonah, N. Y. was stuck up. The robbers got away with $18,000. In Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...
...Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like black beetles stuck in cake frosting. In the Straits of Mackinac 50 miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned to the Straits to break ice for a cluster of 38 more. At week...
...Victoria Palace audiences as "bewildered" by what they saw. Through the gloomiest of blue lights on a Stygian-dark stage, behind a gauze curtain, Diane appeared and rolled her hips. The audience sat still as mutton. Diane, accustomed to Broadway's anticipatory outburst of clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain Stripper Raye waited...
...contingent of Allied Intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. From this halfway point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took a different view, supported the White Russian armies openly, laid down a barrage of vilification against the U. S. for not joining...
...When Your In Love" strikes a new low in movie production. Grace Moore, looking as if she were stuck together with glue and paint, arches her new eyebrows, two inches above her old ones and is glowing with acquired charm for a period of an exceedingly boring hour and a half...