Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron Follett, as the excitable, Gigi-like Laurel, had a part which could easily have been overplayed, but she handled it very well. O. Z. Whitehead was stiff at first but afterwards quite engaging as the butler. Only Frances Ingalls, as Laurel's young mother, was much too unsure of herself and marred an otherwise admirable production...
Rembrandt also inherited a hardy tradition of Dutch portrait painting. His achievement was to take the stiff, official portrait, change it into a dramatic scene, filled with inner excitement that holds the spectator's eye even today. His first great success. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, done when he was only 26, established him as one of the foremost painters of Amsterdam, and brought him a flood of portrait commissions from the city's wealthy burghers...
...Lester Markel of the New York Times, Co-Editor Bruce Gould of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Columnist George Sokolsky. A graduate of the school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter-American understanding. His own Gresham's Law: in a free press, "good news, meaning truthful information, always has and always will drive bad news...
...afternoon last week. Fifteen minutes later, Beatrice Weinberger walked outside and found that 32-day-old Peter had been kidnaped. On the ground was a neatly written note demanding $2,000 ransom, to be placed near a neighbor's garage. Wrote the kidnaper: "I'm scared stiff. Do not notify the police until noon tomorrow or I'll be forced to kill the baby...
...listing on the Big Board of the New York Stock Exchange, a corporation must meet some stiff requirements. The company must prove that it is stable, show net earnings of at least $1,000,000 the preceding year, have at least 1,500 stockholders. But there is a back door to a listing that has been much easier to slip through. Unlisted companies have bought up the corporate shell of a firm listed on the exchange, thus picked up the listing with no trouble. In other cases companies have sold out everything but the listing, then gone into a different...