Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flushed by a good, stiff sea breeze and not a little gratified by the great French naval review he had just witnessed, Premier Herriot of France stepped off a French torpedo boat at Marseille. A luxurious limousine awaited him. But no, he would make the journey à pied; limousines were for the capitalists, feet for the honest working men; so off went Edouard, his shoes squeaking under the weight of his corpulence. Great crowds assembled. The Premier smiled. Great crowds followed. The Premier was delighted. Many times he stopped, shook hands, conversed, kissed, parted with common people and sailors. Many...
...condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet are broad, pudgy and floppy; the fingers stiff, square and spadelike; the toes spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father nor any person about them, nor even...
White waitresses are to replace the former negro waiters. White table cloths will be introduced again for the first time in many years. Comfortable arm chairs will replace the old stony and stiff backed chairs. And, as the greatest innovation of all, Memorial Hall will be open to women with escorts for the first time in its half century of existence...
...round, he jarred the Bull Man's head. In the second, he laid the Bull Man suddenly horizontal with a right jaw-punch, as they were backing out of a clinch. The third was a blood-bringing uppercut to the Bull Man's jaw. The last, a stiff left to the same spot...
...leading amateurs played over T. Suffern Tailer's private Ocean Links in his private annual invitation tournament for his private prizes in precious metals. Big men were present but a little man won? D. Clark ("Duckie") Corkran, of Baltimore (amateur champion of Pa. and Md.). In a stiff wind, he journeyed steadily around the nine difficult holes eight times in 300 strokes. His prize was a mashie of gold. Jess Sweetser, 1922 National Champion, required 301 strokes and got a silver mashie. Champion Max Marston, 305, got nothing. Jess Guilford, 1921 National Champion, was handed a silver golf ball...