Word: stack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin is not as politically dead as newspaper readers believe was indicated in Philadelphia last week when Representative Michael J. Stack, running with Coughlin endorsement against the bitter opposition of the potent Kelly machine, won a Democratic renomination to the House...
When Huxley's son wrote his distinguished father's official Life and Letters, he thought he had winnowed all the posthumous grain from the stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
When homespun Kentucky Poet Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times...
...Winthrop House Polar Bares look upon this achievement with pride as the culminating point in a worthy college career. They argue that it isn't everyone who can drink 300 cans of beer and pile them all on the mantelpiece. The reason they give for collecting such a magnificent stack of tin cans is that when divisionals are over they will be able to celebrate by rolling one down the entry stairs every ten seconds all night...
...questionable remainder of Edward Everett Horton and Allan Jenkins, who, in a touching scene, refuse to leave Al. In the healing air of Maine he recovers his voice, and stays to fall in love with little Miss Sybil Jason and her aunt. Miss Jason is the Warner Brother's stack of chips in the child actress poker game. She is not as pretty as Shirley Temple, nor as pleasantly ugly as Jane Withers, but her singing talents may carry her farther than either...