Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing the stiff straw hat as near to the door as the man without a coat...
...eyed President Albert Lebrun sped her away from "home" (Paris) in his private car, with a French gendarme stiff at attention every kilometer all the way to Calais...
...which has apparently escaped the notice or at least the approval of the writer. It is not at all true that Harvard football stands in danger of overemphasis. What it lacks is any emphasis at all. The position taken by the CRIMSON and by the University in it's stiff-shirt capacity is entirely untenable and corresponds not one whit to the logie of the given situation. The facts, not the theories are what we at Harvard face. We are in the big college class. Consequently we must abide by our good repute and play the other big colleges. Every...
...collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
...stiff-necked high churchman is Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip. As a great concession he had slightly modified the Bill which at first would have given to petty justices of the peace the drastic powers now conferred only on High Court justices. Knowing he had the National Government steam roller behind him, Sir Thomas frigidly declared that to enable the Crown to fight "growing organized Communist incitement" the Act is indispensable. It promptly passed the Commons 241-10-68, seemed sure to pass the Lords this week and should become...