Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hedda's triumph was a triumph for gossip over news. On June 1 her column will supplant that of the New York Daily News's John Chapman. During his two years in Hollywood he stuck to news, not gossip, "tried to report on the making of movies and let it go at that." In the end, instead of letting the gossip go, Chapman's column...
...their first day of business, in for repair came a flying boat so large that its nose stuck out in the street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section...
...Argentine Buenos Aires, Italian Ambassadorial pressure had sufficed to get Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator banned. In Paraguayan Asunción, where diplomacy failed, Axis sympathizers took direct action. Five masked hijackers stuck up a film messenger, made off with reels intended for the premiere. Disgusted but unimpressed by these wild-&-woolly shenanigans, United Artists flew another print from Peru...
...purpose. So I waited for an opening.> Then I let him have it. After that we were both punch drunk. The people on the sidelines . . . yelled, 'Stop them! They're killing each other!' He caught me over the left eye and I spurted blood like a stuck...
Blood was streaming down the soldier's arm. The arm jerked into the air and the fingers stuck out stiff like red arrows. The soldier grew violent. The tiny Burmese girls were unable to hold him down. The surgeon held with one hand and cut with the other. The soldier moaned in Chinese: "Ma ma." It was pitiful to hear the Chinese calling his mother in the same sounds we use. The doctor, his body gleaming with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid...