Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch him. But this time Conger stuck to Bullwinkle's heels. Bullwinkle never got more than three yards ahead, and that was not enough. Just before the wire Conger turned loose his famed "bicycle kick'' and staggered over, winner by one foot...
...serious, sincere musician was proved at the beginning of his career when his name was Schlesinger. He conducted a performance of Die Meistersinger and Felix Weingartner, his superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since...
...asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing in shape. The nebulae seem to be shooting away from one another like pieces of a bursting shell. Therefore, last week, when Dr. Einstein indicated that he had changed his mind about a few points of cosmology, California physicists and astronomers stuck feathers in the scientific caps of Astronomers Hubble and Humason and Physicist Tolman...
...with the palace flunkeys. When the Queen goes away and a revolution breaks out he sides with the people. By the end of the film he has thrown the dictator out, put the radical leader in his place, married the princess to the plumber. If Actor-Director Sherman had stuck to the mood of drawing-room satire in which the play was written he might have been successful; as it stands The Royal Bed falls to bits between Graustarkian romance, farce, and heavy-footed satire. Best shot: the Queen's reminiscences of her trip...
...each other; Caroline painted Peter's picture. All of a sudden Caroline found she was in love with him. But she was pretty sure she still loved her husband too. Just the same she might have given herself to Peter, but he decided against it and stuck to his decision long enough to get away. When Caroline told Maurice she and Peter were in love, he made things more difficult by taking it very well and trusting them completely. Caroline went off to London in a pet and spent the night with a man she despised. When...