Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheez It! In Dayton, when cruising Patrolmen W. L. Fealy and D. T. Carroll were ordered to investigate a horn that was stuck, they were forced to radio back...
Attacks have not been entirely from the outside, Jerry Voorhis, who stuck doggedly to his membership until 1943 continually banged away at excesses in the committee. When chief investigator J.B. Matthews charged that Communists were using consumers' organizations in an effort to destroy the venerable American institution of advertising, Voorhis promptly tagged the report as sheer opinion. It turned out that Matthews was carrying a personal grudge against certain consumers' groups, and was strangely short on facts to support his statements...
...high leather boots, and by removing them right in the middle of his performance. Once, during rehearsal, he became so enraged that he strode over to a violinist, snatched his violin, and crashed it over his head. He fought with his prima ballerina and when her fellow dancers stuck by her, he conducted Die Fledermaus without any ballet. Once he had to be searched out in a café minutes before curtain time...
Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...
...that she was more than that. The plaque told of a night when Faith, a gentle grey and white cat, had "endured horrors and perils beyond the power of words to tell" and through them all "stayed calm and steadfast." Even the Times paid tribute to this heroine who "stuck, while the bombs fell, to her kitten...