Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings. On the wall to the right of Banker Bullock's big desk is the famed copy of the London Times of June 22, 1815, carrying the first four-day-late hearsay story of the Battle of Waterloo. Stuck down at the foot of the page among a jumble of advertisements and personals, the story carries no headline. Significant of the current swing to the middle ground between the management trust of pre-Depression days, when no limitations were set upon the investment policy, and the fixed trust of last...
...forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles for a $3,500 Lincoln, employed it for general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near...
...their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer brought lean days a blue strip of paper supplanted the silk ribbon but Pabst stuck to its trademark...
FAREWELL Miss JULIE LOGAN-J. M. Barrie-Scribner ($1). Not many authors and fewer poets know when to retire. Notable exception is Alfred Edward Housman who, at the age of 63, published his Last Poems and has stuck by his announcement. Sir James Matthew Barrie has certainly done his bit for the world of letters; readers, without actually thinking him dead, may well have thought him finished. But now, after nearly 30 years (in which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental...
...turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much. It was a near thing for Dinny, but the implication is that she was well out of it, will be glad...