Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival delegations stayed at different hotels last week in Washington. But John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
...acting through Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, lodged a protest with Tokyo against the bombing of Lingnan University, and the French Government sent a stiff protest against the attack on the French hospital, both of which were politely filed away by the Tokyo Foreign Office. Japan's real reaction was, as usual, expressed by the Navy. In Shanghai, the chief of the Navy's Press Department. Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, announced that Japanese aerial bombardments would continue. He expressed "satisfaction with the progress of military operations" to date and assured that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid...
Meanwhile in Quarryville, Pa. met the small, Machenite Presbyterian Church in America. Its members elected as their Moderator a stiff-haired, stiff-backed Netherlander who was nominated as a man "on whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church...
Upshot of the meeting will interest Goodman fans but disappoint chamber-music connoisseurs. Able Clarinettist Goodman plays his notes precisely, but sounds like a little boy with a very stiff collar singing in church for the first time...
...easy walkaway that rowing sages expected. A reshuffled Lion crew with 18-year-old Henry Wheeler at stroke staged a magnificent, high-count drive which took the Chace boat by surprise and forced them into a stiff battle...