Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...franc was worth 19.3¢, the present franc is worth 3.9¢. If the French did as Mr. Snowden has repeatedly demanded that they must do. they would repay British bondholders the equivalent of $327,500,000. But in a final, stiff note to Mr. Snowden the French Treasury has just: i) refused to submit the dispute to arbitration; 2) postulated again and for the last time that the British bondholders will be paid in the revalued franc. On this basis they would receive...
...Everybody, it seemed, wanted to go abroad with General Pershing. Theodore Roosevelt asked him to take as privates his sons Theodore Jr. and Archibald, adding: "If I were physically fit, instead of old and heavy and stiff, I should myself ask to go under you in any capacity down to and including a sergeant; but I suppose I could not do work you would consider worth while in the fighting line (my only line) in a lower grade than brigade commander...
...since he has that on Folks who called him silly, Think he's very wise instead. Oh the tired old horse can scarcely drag his feet, If he gets much worse he'll be too tired to eat. He's so old and stiff, he isn't worth his keep, He would go to bed but he'd be too tired to sleep. There was a time so I am told He ran away with Grandpa Cole, He smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse...
Quick Trip. With seven passengers and 900 lb. of mail, a Ford trimotor of National Air Transport rode a stiff tail wind from Chicago to New York one day last week, made the 20-hr. rail trip in 4 hr. 16 min. of flight. The plane was so early arriving in Cleveland (2 hr. 6 min.) the passengers were obliged to kill an hour before flying on to Newark Airport...
Elsa Maxwell, rich California socialite who lives in Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons...