Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name: "When he was a puppy, Tobias-like all cocker spaniels-leaped and played about me a great deal. One day I said to the frisky little dog, 'You would try the patience of Tobias.' I was thinking of Job -but the name stuck...
...week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his entrances and exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing his makeup, unaware of the demonstration sweeping the house...
...dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round table conferences, but he did think of a more polite way of talking about them...
...Last week, while the A. A. U. pondered her case, she announced that they need ponder no longer, that she would turn professional out & out. The Southern A. A. U. soon announced that she was exonerated, reinstated. But logical Babe Didrikson closed her thin lips, shook her long jaw, stuck to her decision. She said she wanted to write about sports and perhaps other subjects, also "do some film work." Further Didrikson plans...
...making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches who haunted Cheapside. Past the bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry on to one of the inns, a warm fire, dinner, and the canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young...