Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into smoking grease. The flames leaped from figure to figure, stroking their oily faces with a hot and magic hand. Before long, all the ugly famous criminals, the sly and silent actresses, the solemn, musty presidents and the fake policemen stationed to fool visitors-all these people with their stiff faces and their blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape destruction, became puddles or streams of burning wax. Lindbergh looked brave no longer, a murderer lowered the frail knife which he had held so long in a poised...
...heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master mariner. He saw mutinies, endured shipwreck, felt the stiff kick of weather in typhoonous China seas. In the home port of old Newburyport one day he met Alice, daughter of Banker Albert W. Greenleaf, aristocratic Massachussets name, courted, married, took his bride to sea, retired three years later from his quarterdeck to manufacture ecclesiastical stained glass for Scandinavian Lutheran churches...
...Haines, head coach of the Freshman crews, supervised the work of the 1931 oarsmen, together with F. R. Sullivan '27, former coxswain of the University crew. There was a stiff breeze, and an occasional cake of ice floated down upon the Leviathan, but the oarsmen encountered no major difficulties. The Freshmen have been working on the tank in Newell Boat House since February 6, when the call for candidates was sounded...
...Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., Dutch Henry, southpaw pitcher of the New York Giants, went to a hotel dance in a tuxedo and stiff shirt while his teammates, standing in the doorway, watched...
...School on Nov. 2, making a total of seven games. The schedule is a hard one, and although this year's cubs went through it without a defeat this team was unusually strong. Exeter and Andover are rivals of old standing with the Freshmen, and practically always provide a stiff battle. Last fall it was only after three scoreless periods that 1931 was finally able to break through the fighting Exeter team. The Worcester team which has been unusually strong in the last few years, held the Freshman gridiron men to a scoreless tie. The list as follows is subject...