Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This performance received certain notoriety because of a notice which appeared in the CRIMSOSN just before the concert. Containing instructions for the singers, it read; 'Glee Club-Wear dark suits and stiff colors to the concert Friday and full dress Saturday. The angel chorus (Radcliffe) need not dress for either performance...
...Washington Post and Times Herald's Fair-Dealing Cartoonist Herblock. Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen own stock, the State Times had no trouble filling its first issue with ads. But the opposition Clarion-Ledger (circ. 47,269) and Daily News (41,324) will offer stiff competition. Said a Clarion-Ledger editorial last week in an angry blast aimed at the new daily: "No business founded on hatred, envy, malice . . . can long survive...
...unchanging figures of the times. Stable is the word that comes to mind. Enduring. The old Grecian marble sort of thing. Still, as Jeeves would say, appearances may be deceptive. For after years of presenting to the world an upper lip not necessarily on the stiff side but always as smooth as a baby's whatever-it-is, Wooster has now grown a mustache. Dashing, don't you know, debonaire-at least in the eyes of the young master himself. But Jeeves, a devotee of the lifted-eyebrow school of acting, lifts his eyebrows like nobody...
...should the medical profession approach quacks? "We have a duty," says Horton, "to examine and study each new cancer-cure proposal, no matter how unreasonable it may seem." Nevertheless, Dr. Horton urges strong action: doctors everywhere should seek stiff local laws and penalties against "premeditated quackery," report quacks to state medical examiners for investigation...
...grades ranged from a low-price Axminster weave to a more expensive velvet weave, and a Wilton weave, costliest of all. The best wool for these rugs came from China, India and Pakistan. But in 1950 China slapped an embargo on all wool exports; India and Pakistan followed with stiff quotas on shipments, thus cutting off nearly 30% of the best grade of U.S. wool imports. Prices promptly quadrupled, to as much as $2.30 a lb., and the cost of finished rugs spiraled alarmingly. At the same time a revolutionary new method of rugmaking with material other than wool...