Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound to her by the infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable of digesting such a large bite and was forced to disgorge. Inflamed by a frenzied economic nationalism, Japan apparently now considers herself able to swallow the morsel that stuck in her gullet fifteen years...
Freed for once from the embarrassments of his own campaign (see p. 21) the Mayor was superb. He stuck out his great jaw and roared questions at Herr Spanknoebel till the latter cringed in embarrassment. In random efforts to pronounce his name he called him "Spanknoobel," "Spanknoodle" and once "Stoopnagel...
...Berlin who revere him the way Elman and Heifetz revere the late great Leopold Auer.* Criticized for having no show pieces on his programs, Auer once remarked that he left all those to his pupils. Schnabel's pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven. Says he: "Of course, contemporary music should be heard and if there were no one else to play it, I would do so myself. But the opposite is the case. The demand for first performances has meant that many works are born and buried...
...American Frontiersman had a faculty which amounted to a genius for manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck, but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he secured twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville,--it was certainly time for a new nickname. He's "tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from...
...Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin to fresco the walls of the new Oxford Union, they went to work with...