Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini rose from the head of the table, strode across the room, stepped out on to the balcony. Ta ra ta ta ra ta ta ra! blared the bugles below. The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested both hands on the balustrade and bellowed: "Officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, Black Shirts of the Fascist revolution, Italian men and women at home and throughout the world-LISTEN...
Next morning everyone was up in time to watch the sunrise over Manhattan and the New Jersey meadows. Arrived at Lakehurst, the passengers found a rigid customs examination waiting them, finally flew off to Newark by American Airlines. Dr. Eckener went to work parrying questions from newshawks, preparing his ship for the return trip this week. In U. S. papers the happy, goateed old man received columns of tributes. In Germany a Nazi ban prevented his name from being mentioned...
...cross section in its rigid form has been no more successful than any other attempt to regiment sociability. In the abstract the ideal of making it possible for men of all stations and classes to mingle, even if only with the measured cordiality of a Friday evening at the Somerset, has a certain nobility of tone which permits no contradiction. As it has worked out, whether the fault of University Hall or the student body, more hostility and disappointment than conviviality have resulted...
...CONVINCED THAT THE ONLY PRACTICAL SOLUTION IS LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION, UN DER RIGID POLICE AND HEALTH SUPERVISION...
Contrary to the impression received by the Editor, all factions in our rapidly growing membership have shown a spirit of compromise consistent with the principles of rigid parliamentary procedure. To quote two phrases from the editorial, the Harvard Student Union is showing itself to be an organization in which the "the real political beliefs of Harvard students" can "find adequate means of expression." Bruce O. Bliven, Jr. '37 Robert J. Cumming '38 Lawrence S. Levy '39 Robert S. Chafee '36 G.B. Mayberry 1G D. Boone Schirmer '37 Robert S. Brainerd...