Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter who has had the necessity to walk along these through fares late at night, realizes the benefits of this police protection." To prove that he knows of what he is talking, Mickie...
Died. Ford Sterling, 55 (real name, George F. Stitch), tuft-bearded, swizzle-eyebrowed chief of the Mack Sennett Keystone Cops later a stock cinemactor; of thrombosis; in Hollywood, Calif...
...With the world at this time particularly hostile to us literati who drink our tea straight," he added, "our action is merely a stitch in time...
...that "Ecstasy" is Old Howard's long-awaited rival. But the reigning queens of Howard Street need have no worries about business falling off. Aside from the now-famous Log Cabin Close-up and a couple of long distance shots of Miss Lamarr loping around the countryside without a stitch to her name, the picture makes no monumental play for the baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very symbolic. Perhaps this was the director's secret, haunting ideal. If so, he came far from realizing it on celluloid...
...Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash...