Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a half century is a much longer measuring stick in the West than in the East, about a dozen metropolitan dailies on the Pacific Coast are that old, or older. The Express was alive in Los Angeles for ten years before the Times came along. In San Francisco, in 1880, Senator George Hearst accepted the nearly worthless Examiner in lieu of payment of an old debt, negligently kept it for seven years until his son William, home from Harvard by expulsion, astounded him by asking to have the paper for his own. The Chronicle's stormy career under...
...knows was telling me how much that fellow made. It is unbelievable; the public has no idea. It's partly the hard times, of course, that killed the game. But the public seems to have lost interest as well. . . . Oh, I suppose I'll stick to aviation. I've had some offers...
...York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio was as full of painters and sculptors as sculpture. In the days when U. S. dealers would not touch the work of U. S. modernists with a forked stick, she turned two rooms of her studio into a temporary gallery and held exhibitions for her proteges. In 1914 the group that used to gather there formed the Whitney Studio Club: John Sloan, Robert Winthrop Chanler, Robert Henri, George Luks, Jo Davidson, Paul Manship and a dozen others since generally recognized...
...except when Jean Dixon handles them rather unconvincing. But the authors were quick to realize that the real wit lay in their subject, in their caustic satire. If at times this becomes rather broad and slapstick, they may be excused by the fact that as a rule they stick to their knitting and produce what is a very necessary douche for America's most chronic, most virulent ailment...
Judith, half-gypsy daughter to old "Rogue" Herries, 18th Century Cumberland squire, was a wild thing from her youth up, but she had character. Her wildness got her into many a scrape, led her to marry Georges Paris, an attractive, coldhearted, unscrupulous rascal. Character made her stick to him when he was unfaithful to her, even when the police were after him. Finally Georges went too far: he murdered a man; whereupon the man's old father murdered Georges. Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again...