Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't. It was Fort Dearborn then. But the Saltonstalls stuck around, made their money after the Chicago Fire...
...Secretary of State had said that the U.S. was disposed to let the Gaullists "exercise leadership" in the civil administration of liberated France. With good reason, General de Gaulle suspected that this promise left a loophole for dealings with others in France, stuck to his never-deviating demand for exclusive sovereignty...
With the school closed, the community in an uproar and a state investigation under way, Assistant Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in the bookcase and behind the window shades to simulate spontaneous combustion. They juggled the coal bucket with long pointers, threw lumps of coal around the room. Their sleight of hand was so skillful that it fooled not only the teacher but suggestible parents, one of whom swore that coals jumped...
...estimated that if all his sales were strung end to end they would "make a strip 100 ft. wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke out, he was the man who got 60,000 stranded Americans home from Europe, and started Herbert Hoover along a similar humanitarian road by putting him in charge of lost luggage...
...remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...