Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a century ago Charles Dickens got a job in a warehouse at Old Hungerford Stairs. There for twelve hours a day he tied up pot after pot of blacking, stuck labels on them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed...
There was a bustle as a photographer hurried in. He set up his camera, efficiently brushed the paste pots aside, stuck a pencil in Mr. Bilbo's hand. "Now, Governor." he briskly directed, "just try to look like you're busy...
...receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing fountains in Rome's public squares, called the Italian Senate. Drama, even frenzy was injected as the senators gathered by news that Germany might refuse to squiggle. Instantly Il Duce put through a telephone call to Der Führer; in Berlin. Dictator bickered with Dictator until...
...late famed Baldwin Brothers who began barnstorming soon after the Civil War and had a "balloon farm" near Quincy, Ill. Father Clarence, who limps, boasts that he has at various times broken every bone in his body. Says he: I'm a fatalist. And I'm simply stuck on jumping." The Bonettes are believed to be the only hot-air balloonists now in the business...
...second wind at starving: his system had temporarily given up hope for food. Vichy water had stopped the nausea. By day Gandhi basked in the sun; by night he stared at the stars from Lady Thackersey's veranda. His eyes sank further into his head, his collarbone stuck out like a harness. But as he began the second week of his fast he was cheerful. His wife, released from jail, was with him. His son Harilal (eldest of four) came to make his filial peace after a twelve-year estrangement. Father patted son on the back, broke his prescription...