Word: neckedness
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El Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte...
¶ Britain was in no position to be stiff-necked about socialization of Ruhr industry (see FOREIGN NEWS), as was indicated by her readiness to discuss Ruhr coal production in Washington.
Labor relations had become so bad at the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft...
No doubt when this colossus was first conceived it seemed the epitome of box office appeal-a Western to end all Westerns, with plentiful portions of Sex to attract most of the less bloodthirsty patrons. Tossed into this menage were a threesome of Hollywood's more expensive thespians-Jennifer Jones...
The tug between egotism and patriotism was tough. For a time the energetic First Lady faltered. But to la Senora, long snubbed by stiff-necked, short-pedigreed Argentine society because she came from the wrong side of the tracks, the trip to Madrid seemed a chance to prove her social...