Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presently, as the State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
There was a definition: "A Nordic is a Southern Democrat who takes a good stiff shot of 100 per cent American corn-and then votes for Hoover...
...Labor has never had a better friend' than just before election when every "bundle stiff" shakes the "rattlers" and hits for a road camp where he stays until election day. After that the roads had to wait another two years for a gubernatorial contest before receiving any attention...
...cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later he climbed stiff and jolt-bruised from his living coffin, and stumbled into the forests of-Prussia? Russia? Poland...
...Bigelow '29, H. W. Bigelow '29, F. R. S. Giddens '30, G. C. Holbrook '30, C. B. Lakin '30, and M. N. Stanley '29 who are expected to form the nucleus of the new sextet. However several star performers on last year's Freshman combination bid fair to furnish stiff competition to the lettermen. Among the most promising from the Class of 1931 are J. B. Garrison '31 and S. L. Batchelder...