Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very baggy ones, crossed bandoliers. Charles Sandré made one of each to the number of 900, including every rank in every regiment in Napoleon's armies...
...Austrian Army officer, he was born in Cleveland 58 years ago. went to Western Reserve, became a lawyer. He teamed up politically with Cleveland's Tom Johnson and Newton Baker. His particular interest was judicial reform. He affects 19th Century attire and speech, wears old-fashioned stiff collars, voluminous cravats, striped trousers, heavy black coats. His round, Pickwickian cheeks dimple with smiles and he trains his frizzy grey hair to stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald head. But his tongue is his greatest member. Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years...
...furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa the Bolivians had broken through but Nanawa-Paraguay's Verdun-still stood after the Gran Chaco's bloodiest battle...
...Elizabeth Meyer, one-time staffmember of the New York Sun. Meanwhile Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who wanted the Post but was outbid by Publisher Meyer, announced that on July 4 she will start a new Washington paper, a morning tabloid named the Enquirer. Mesdames Meyer and McLean already have stiff feminine competition in energetic Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald...
...vault and half mile respectively. Byles of Princeton and Stanwood of Bowdoin are also on the British team. Stanwood made history for Oxford last March by winning three firsts against Cambridge in the high jump, and in both the high and low hurdles. The Oxford "iron man" will have stiff competition from J. C. Grady '33 of Harvard and from Lockwood and Dunbar of Yale over the harriers. Yale's remarkable Keith Brown should win the high jump as well as the pole vault. Hallowell will be out to lower Lowe's meet record of one minute...