Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postal salaries were thoroughly deflated during the World War. Having no part in the wage rises given the Government-controlled railway workers, letter carriers and postal clerks stuck to their jobs at wages one-half those paid to textile workers. Salaries were not equitably adjusted until 1925. And the classification act of that year was admittedly a compromise, a lower wage than was just being fixed, coupled with an assurance of decreased living costs. Now, in the face of assured inflation and soaring prices, postal salaries must once more be "deflated...
When he had gazed his fill, Frank Bonora suddenly felt himself trapped. His head, which had slipped through the bars so easily, could not slip back. It stuck at the ears, painfully, inexorably. Maybe this was what School was like. Frank Bonora set up an anguished wailing which lasted until a janitor came with a hacksaw...
...American Frontiersman had a faculty which amounts to genius for manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he wangled 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 the ranks...
...cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess I can get by on four hundred hard money." "Wull, good luck John," Mr. Clinton wished as his car rattled away: John returned to his wood pile. The September sun poured upon his broad back, on the stone fence along...
...Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High above the city they signed a marriage contract, landed in the suburbs, rode back to town that night. Mrs. Boynton died only last April...