Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textile industry. Total U. S. imports of cotton cloth in 1935, of which Japan supplied about half, amounted to less than 1%, of domestic production. Textile millers clamoring for protection, however, complained that in their special lines-bleached, printed, colored and dyed goods-Japanese manufacturers furnished really stiff competition. Furthermore Japan, having cut heavily into the U. S.'s foreign markets for cotton cloth, upped its exports for U. S. domestic consumption from 36,000,000 sq. yd. in 1935 to 21,000,000 in the first three months of 1936. Against the $5,000,000 per year which...
...bulldog jaw unexpectedly stiff, Stanley Baldwin rose last week to make the strongest statement anybody had ever heard the Prime Minister deliver in the House of Commons...
Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...
Like many another notable Dr. DeLee has his quirks. He always wears the kind of white pique ties and stiff collars which were fashionable in Chicago when he was a medical student. During office hours he wears a white surgeon's jacket and carries a gold-plated stethoscope. In his office are floodlights for taking pictures, a small dark-colored desk and a narrow four-poster bed. On a wall is a picture of the Boy Christ in the Temple...
Eventually the parade reached the Italian legation where Marshal Badoglio set up his headquarters. Everywhere streets were deserted, houses burned, shops looted. Hundreds of bodies littered the roadway, stiff, stinking, crawling with flies. Some had been hideously mangled by wild dogs and hyenas, which skulked in from the eucalyptus forests every night to scavenge...