Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest in the Harvard-Yale track meet scheduled for this Saturday still centered about Vernon Munroe, injured quarter-miler, yesterday as Coaches Farrell and Mikkola sent their athletes through their last stiff workout...
These changes by Coach Whiteside are the first which have been made public, although it is expected that further alterations in the seating of the Jayvees are forthcoming. Practice this week so far has been extremely stiff; the first and second boats have been going over long stretches at a high stroke, and racing in time trials over two-mile distances. Coach Whiteside is evidently whipping his boats into shape for this week's races, and sparing no pains in the process...
...Friday's distance medley race, Rowe will run the quarter, Fobes the half, Hallowell, the three-quarters, and Cobb the mile. The same quartet will figure Saturday in the two mile relay, where it will face stiff opposition from such-powerful teams as Bates, which again relies on Chapman to bring it through to victory...
...Chanler was out of bed again. Dozens of them went down to offer their congratulations to one of the greatest painters, one of the most spectacular characters in the U. S. They found him, majestic in a long pink nightgown and shaggy thatch of white hair, sipping a stiff hooker of brandy, and playing Russian Bank with small, vivacious Mile Suzanne Tirlier, otherwise "Tilly," his secretary...
...London, 1688, of fairly well-to-do elderly parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad...