Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff six-mile paddle, interspersed with a couple of racing starts as the men neared home, formed the bill of fare for the two University crews yesterday...
...Saturday afternoon in Watertown by the score of seven matches to one. Oakley scored on point when Chase defeated Dixon 6-4, 4-6, 10-8; otherwise the University players had things much their own way, winning their seven matches in straight sets. Kent and Oakley gave Briggs a stiff combat, losing only after two hard-fought sets, 10-8, 6-4. The third doubles match was not finished...
...found little difficulty in defeating Danvers, 10 to 6, but in their game with Boston Trade School on the next Wednesday, they experienced their first real opposition, finally pulling the game out of the fire by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. Lowell High School also offered a stiff fight, but finally succumbed by the same score. It was not until their final game this Wednesday, however, that they showed their real power by defeating the strong Medford High team...
...story is built up about Abigail Vane, reared under the stiff tutelage of her aunt, Clemency Vane, and the loving devotion of her wealthy grandfather, Michael Hare. In her teens she is occupied with nothing but her social career, but the war brings a sudden change and Abigail, like "a true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone...
...ambitious attempt by Robert Cutler, a Harvard graduate in the class of 1916, to cover, in a novel of four hundred pages, "American life" and to cover it in all its complexity. "The Speckled Bird" is the Kaleidoscopic result. We are given a formal and appropriate introduction to a stiff New England household which had existed untarnished for more than three centuries: we are allowed to sit at the luxurious table of an unpolished but kindly Irish financier who had survived two panics and who now entertained a host of uncouth "hangers on" at his mansion on Fifth Avenue...