Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stiff-necked Back Bay society learned that Sally Clark, 18, younger sister of Mrs John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...
They wrote Were We Guinea Pigs?* said the 55 authors, aged 17 to 18, because progressive education "is often misunderstood." In clear though slightly stiff language they told who they were (with charts)-a group with better than average intelligence, most with family incomes over $4,000. They also described their teachers-"a very unusual collection. . . . One gentleman spends his summers paddling around Europe in a canoe. . . . We have fine co-operation among our faculty. Some of our teachers have got along together so well that they have married...
...agreement, strictly on a two-nation basis, made no mention of Austrian debts owed the U. S., France and half-a-dozen smaller powers. At the time of repudiation, these nations, with Britain, lodged stiff protests in Berlin. Britain, however, was the only power in a position to bring the Reich to any sort of terms. Since Britain annually buys $49,440,000 more goods from Germany than she sells, all she had to do was to clamp on exchange clearing control, deduct the debt payments from British money owed German exporters. Germany acted before this got beyond the threat...
That four different systems of examinations-by the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Comptroller of the Currency, and the States-bothered bankers was only one of the reasons the Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing...
...native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep these complications from turning into a story of incest, end their tale with the marriage of Naia and Alan, their shipwreck on a deserted island, rescue, tragedy...