Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times Joe offered to cut his original demands down to a 44-hour week, stuck for a 30% pay rise. He did not want a strike; he said so. But he shouted: "A ship's crew including captain, engineer and all the officers would still average less than 75? an hour. I pay a sitter more than that to watch my baby." The owners, who gave the N.M.U. a $45 a month raise last October on W.L.B. orders, were not moved...
...That," he said, looking at the lipstick on his handkerchief, "is something which must be tactfully explained to my wife." Then he licked a flashbulb, stuck it in his speed gun, and banged off a picture of the happy couple...
...Chicago Tribune's tall, tired-looking Photographer Frederick Giese had been covering courts for eleven years. He had stuck his head into Judge Joseph Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...
...radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
George S. Messersmith, new Ambassador to Argentina, paused in Rio en route to Buenos Aires, had a reunion with ex-King Carol and Mistress Magda (he had known them in Mexico). Diplomat Messersmith had stoutly stuck up for them, and told how. When somebody had spoken slurringly about them, he had slammed back: "For 13 years he has been faithful to her; and for 13 years she has not looked at another man. Which is more than...