Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patriotic Olof Broline affected the Lincoln, covered his chin clear back to the ears with stiff white bristles...
Asia's War Lord is that most repressed, overeducated and modest of monarchs, the Son of Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr...
...June 1928, while visiting in Italy, "A. P." Giannini was reported to have a paralytic stroke. San Francisco rumor had him dead and Bancitaly stock dropped 100 points in three weeks. His frightened right-hand man, Leo Belden, hastily obtained the support of Manhattan bankers at a stiff price. By the time Giannini somewhat recovered, reappeared in Manhattan, he was obliged to put a bold face on his troubles by announcing that he had picked Elisha Walker, head of the old, eminent and sage private banking house of Blair & Co. as his successor. Year later Giannini retired, making Mr. Walker...
Some excuse might be given the Twin City papers for taking no notice of this gathering as they have many things on their minds. Mr. Jones of the Minneapolis Journal is up against stiff competition from the revitalized Minneapolis Star which seems to be running away with the northwest's newspaper show. . . . Mr. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune is interested in many things and . . . appears to be too busy to notice a changing social order. ... St. Paul papers exert little influence in Minnesota and are not a factor...
...beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote. To outsiders he might seem a dim. ineffectual visionary, but to them he was a genuine Messiah. With an artificial tan poppy in the lapel of his white coat. Dr. Townsend settled his long chin down on his high, stiff collar, glued his eyes on his manuscript, droned out a fierce denunciation of New Deal extravagance. Only when it came to a remedy did the author of the plan to have the Government give away...