Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal entertainments were a midnight hunt for "wildebeest,f and golf games. Observers noted that Edward of Wales, not a proficient or enthusiastic golfer, has been trying to improve his game. He now wears a stiff-brimmed hat for driving and putting, a floppy hat for traveling the course...
...present Captain A. M. Stollmeyer '30 and E. J. Des Roches '31 are having a stiff competition for the fullback berth. J. de Wolfe Hubbard '29 is also showing up well. The halfback positions are in a way to be well filled with Louis Kerness '29, a two year veteran, A. R. Rudd '39 of last year's team, and A. G. Booth '80, of last year's team competing for them...
Thus everyone was obliged to seem "surprised" all over again at Jonkheer Doktor J. Loudon, stiff-necked Minister to France of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Chairman of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission...
...Connell '30 was shifted to his old end position in yesterday's scrimmage, but it is probable that he will be back with the center squad at the return of V. M. Harding '31 who is out for a day or two with a stiff...
Typographically uninteresting, written in the stiff, undeviating style of all worthy financial announcements, an advertisement, which measured 8½ inches long, three columns wide, made known last week without obvious effort to do so, that John Davison Rockefeller III had made his debut on a directorate. Said the notice, printed in Manhattan dailies: "To serve adequately the banking needs of the Harlem section of New York City, the Dunbar National Bank of New York . . , will open for business September 17, 1928.'' It said the bank was "established particularly to serve the business and personal banking interests of Harlem...