Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course meant,) to "fight to the last ditch" against warring nations which disturb our interests and our efforts for peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases. In the present circumstances, the smug assumption of moral superiority, even if valid, can only alienate further a people who already feel cause for resentment toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward...
...Tread softly and carry a big stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...
Crooner: Well, we Californians must stick together...
...aeronaut of France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault-Pelterie suit Opinion: "There...
When Peter Karmel crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find...