Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on the railroad; stuck all the feathers in his cap and called it a day. The feathers were Mexico's national tennis titles. Those who took turns being Yankee Doodle: Vincent Richards, singles; Vincent Richards and Ray Casey, doubles; Mary K. Browne, singles; Charlotte Hosmer and one Miss Tennant, doubles. Richards was also Yankee Doodle in the 1923 Mexican singles...
...Mexican "greasers" wear, such as cowboys wear in the cinema-in short, a sombrero, its rim a burning red, its crown a brilliant blue, was given into the hands of Mr. Coolidge. After a short moment of admiration for so engaging a specimen of the hatters craft, Mr. Coolidge stuck his head under the hat's ample canopy-and in no time became a member of the Smoki Tribesmen of Prescott, Ariz. With the President in the rear grounds of the White House were representatives of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, who performed the initiative ceremony, explained that...
...board the Olympic, the Baron stuck his nose into the royal apartment. Said he: "This is too pretty for me. I'll give this to Trotter [groom in waiting...
...Quai Voltaire. "No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais." His father was a royalist, a bookseller, a devout Catholic. The father's comrades in the guard of Charles X used to call him "le père France." The name stuck to him and was inherited by the son who has made it famous...
Harvard's game with Middlebury was reminiscent of the 6-to-6 tie that stuck in the Crimson craw last year. Captain Klevenow, of the Vermonters, missed his try for goal, however, and Rogers and Gherke gathered belated points for Harvard. Score: Harvard, 16; Middlebury...