Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical is the story of the provincial lady who wrote in to say her 25-year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep an eye on him? In the Transcript office Mr. Fletcher is famed for his eyeshades-envelopes stuck between his temples and the bows of his spectacles. He is a stubble-bearded, genteel, firm believer in oldtime Christianity and Prohibition. He is a baseball addict, fond of plucking batting averages from his capacious memory and correcting the errors of sportswriters. Last week "Churchman" Fletcher announced his retirement...
Michigan's white-crowned James Couzens, richest U. S. Senator, sat himself down last week and signed two checks totaling $30,423.39. One he stuck in an envelope and mailed to the receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Detroit. The other he dispatched to the receiver of equally defunct Guardian National Bank of Commerce. Then he smilingly informed his wife, Margaret Manning Couzens, that he had paid in full assessments against her as a stockholder in the holding companies for the two closed banks. He also informed the Press...
...Settle, who had pulled the ripcord to empty the bag of hydrogen. Except for a dent in the gondola the balloon and instruments were intact. Sadly Commander Settle explained the fiasco: planning to hang at 5,000 ft. until dawn, he had pulled his gas escape valve. The valve stuck open. Then it was recalled that during the last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several times while those near the balloon listened for escaping gas. Commander Settle later admitted that he was not quite positive the valve was completely closed as he took off, but was unwilling...
Father Mahon hopes soon to get a large statue of St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child. He will mount the image back of the radiator which, commented he last week, looks rather empty stuck...
...taking off or landing a plane, it came downwind, zoomed aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious course, inevitably overshot the field, crashed in a swamp...