Word: stiffness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...splitting hairs; consequently, if Mr. Roosevelt wants to avoid future complications that are bound to be highly unpleasant, he will see that recognition is extended to the conservative government without any delay: for even with powerful American support it is evident that the conservatives are going to have a stiff battle overcoming the Revolutionary party because of its military power and even more because of the wide popular appeal which it has gained for itself. NEMO
PEGASUS' PERCH: Next to the Ibis Nest. Just one of those places three flights up where you can still see the Village Crowd. Clientele rather stiff and formal...
...League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered to Chancellor Hitler a stiff note, reputedly rejecting Germany's demand that she be permitted to triple her present army of 100,000 men. With France and Germany thus deadlocked, Sir John persuasively urged upon II Duce that the present is no time to take the League of Nations apart...
...Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make up his mind to chip...
...polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said her daughter : "Mother is resting well and making fine progress." Bound for Doom...