Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both men bowed again. The stiff nothings involved in presenting diplomatic credentials were over. President Hoover went upstairs to change his clothes, get back to his office. Minister Herridge, now an envoy in good standing, returned to his legation, started to pack for a trip to Canada where he will remain all summer...
...Crimson-Blue victory over the Oxford-Cambridge forces, on British soil since 1904. With Harvard supplying one former and two present intercollegiate champions, the combined team, under the direction of Coach Farrell and George Connors, Eli mentor, is rated strong enough to take first place in six events, with stiff competition anticipated all along the line...
...consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world's quickest, most impressive, best...
...blue beret and the same kind of clothes, looked so much like Jurado that it was hard to tell them apart. Jurado made his big mistake when he sent his brassie shot into the crowd on the tenth fairway and took a five. At the 14th, playing into a stiff wind, he was on in three and down in three putts for a six. He played the next two holes in par and still had a comfortable margin-one over par to tie-when he teed up his ball at the 17th...
...Lifetime) to show how ridiculous musical extravaganzas can be when done wrong, and Lyricist Howard Dietz and Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...