Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last fortnight there had been no kidnapping for ransom in the U. S. since nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser of the rich lumber family was snatched at Tacoma in May 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.). George Weyerhaeuser, whose captors were caught and given stiff sentences after obtaining $200,000 for his release, used to play with Charles Mattson when he went to Haddaway Hall, the former home of his grandfather, two blocks away from the Mattson home...
...theatre, and audience were all conducive to a performance of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; the first was wet and sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles...
...carried a bag of flour which she sprinkled in the air to fog their pictures. She provided more copy by accusing her neighbors of spying on her and swearing at them when she saw them on the street. Meanwhile two of the under-worldlings indicted with her were given stiff prison sentences...
...seven pictures were on view, borrowed from such diverse sources as Buckingham Palace, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, Lord Brabourne, the London Foundling Hospital, Hartford's Atheneum, and a Mr. Henderson Inches. The Metropolitan's Copley show traced the artist's development from his stiff but forthright colonial portraits of the 1760s to the slick and unctuous set pieces produced by the Tory expatriate about...
Leading a retinue of 25 men, Coach Joe Stubbs will be faced with the prospect of three stiff games on consecutive nights when he takes the Varsity ice squad to Lack Placid for the approaching Christmas Holiday...