Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Scots much prefer a drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch...
...every man, woman and child in the U. S. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was asked by newshawks whether he thought the huge relief expenditures in prospect would ever be paid for out of taxes. "Certainly!" he retorted, "I do not think taxes in this country are stiff. Perhaps real estate taxes are stiff, but certainly income taxes are light comparatively. This country does not know what real heavy taxation...
...sufficient to meet at least the moratoriumed interest payments due British and French holders of Dawes and Young bonds. Since Germany sells to Britain and France vastly more than she buys, these Governments need only seize and collect payments which their citizens would otherwise make to Germany. In a stiff speech to the House of Commons hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain explicitly threatened to do this, but gave Germany July 1 to mend her ways, amend her moratorium. Since the U. S. sells to Germany more than she buys, Washington statesmen could not take the drastic steps...
Adapted from a story by Louis Bromfield. The Life of Vergie Winters is a wet-eyed salute to sacrifice. As such, it is an ideal vehicle for Ann Harding whose specialty is keeping a stiff upper lip amid life's many misfortunes. Actually, the miseries of Vergie Winters are unlikely, exaggerated and avoidable. That they may draw more tears than any of Ann Harding's other recent martyrdoms is due to Director Alfred Santell's clever use of his whole bag of tricks, including "asides" and sequences of "narratage." Typical shot: Vergie Winters, when little Joan runs...
...discovered that candy containing hard liquor could be sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk. The candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child drunk. Several shopkeepers were arrested, claimed that they had bought the liquor candies for cash from a mysterious man in a truck who left no name or address...