Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second race of the afternoon, the Winthrop House crew barely managed to nose out by half a dock length the Eliot House boat, which stuck close to Winthrop House the whole of the three quarter mile stretch. A combination crew made up of men from several different houses also participated in the same race, but was outclassed by its more experienced and stronger rivals...
Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
They won, for example, when Congo, a pigmy elephant, tried to walk into Dr. Ditmars' office, got stuck in the doorway. Congo snorted and started to shake the walls down. Dr. Ditmars at once broke into a noisy, fake argument with a keeper. The argument attracted Congo's attention. He quieted down and keepers eased him from the doorway...
Biggest catfish in the world is Old Blue who inhabits the Missouri River and is so big he once got stuck trying to go through a canal lock. But Old Blue exists only in the imaginations of Missouri River boatmen. Last week a real catfish was caught by one Manuel Trigleth in Bee Lake, near Lexington, Miss., which made Manuel Trigleth shout for his father and brother to help pull in the line. Weight...
...star witness for the defense was Alfredeta Forde, 93, grandmother of Constance May, an oldtime actress. Carried into court on a chair last week, this ancient dame, alert of eye, answered questions with the dramatic articulation of the 1860 stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed...