Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomores and freshmen, is on the cards for the 31st of this month. This "horn game" has been an established custom for many years, and never fails to attract a crowd of spectators from far and near. The freshmen have practised constantly all the spring and play a very stiff game, so that the odds seem to be in their favor, and the sophomores are in a state of unenviable anxiety...
Found - A green stiff hat. Owner can get it at Drury...
This room is furnished in imitation black walnut and is kept in the stiffest, most inhospitable good order. There are stiff white pillow-shams pinned on enormous pillows standing up endwise at the head of the bed, and each "sham" has two creases, so that the "sham" may be folded in four and laid on a chair when one goes to bed. A stiff white bed-cover (a wedding gift to Mrs. Butterfield from her mother) is on the bed, with three creases, one from end to end and two across, so that it too may be folded...
...stiff towels hang on that most exasperatingly upsetable piece of furniture, the towel rack, with a large B worked on each. These towels absolutely refuse to absorb water, but have a pleasing accomplishment of standing up alone; the more pleasing, that it is neither required nor expected of a towel. There is always a fresh cake of soap in the soap-dish, and the stiffest and whitest of tidies on the chairs, the bureau, the wash-stand, and on every other piece of furniture in the room upon which a "tidy" can possibly be placed or pinned...
...aged and blind priest of Zeus, was probably as good a one as could have been made, as his voice and manner were exactly suited to such a character. Later in the play, however, as the Shepherd, he showed some room for improvement. His utterances were too stiff and forced to sound natural. The parts of Teiresias, and Messenger from Corinth, assumed by Mr. J. F. Hagan, and the Messenger from the Palace, by Mr. P. C. Hagar, a rising young actor of two or three years' standing, deserve favorable mention...