Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuck to your post in a veritable furnace with the white heat literally burning your clothes off your body. You did this notwithstanding Pilot Ed Hefley begged you to leave the pit to him. When the door into the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door. . . . Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch...
Without being rude to streams of visitors and newshawks, he stuck as closely as possible to the routine of the Governor of Kansas - walking ten blocks to the State House after early breakfast every day, clearing up regular desk work, going to the dentist, making a solemn little speech to University of Kansas seniors (where the Chancellor slipped and introduced "the Governor of Indiana"), getting out to the Hunt Club for a ride on Si, his chestnut gelding. Capitol employes wanted to install a radio to listen to the Cleveland doings but Alf Landon told them...
...beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences. Cody once wired him: IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN WITH THIS...
...city planning,--at least from my point of view. The fact that a highway can be made by a municipality or a state or a nation does not alter the fact that it is an element in city planning. No institution in this country has stuck so closely, to this vital subject as the Harvard School...
...Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump. To others it will be no more exciting than looking into a family album at faded and old-fashioned pictures...