Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jamaica, N. Y., one Lawrence Grenbaum got drunk, crawled out on a roof, slipped, grabbed the edge of the roof with his hands and chin. There he hung until he died. Policemen found his body several hours later, still hanging from the roof, suspended by his stiff fingers...
Slap, slap, slap, for 3,600 times without a miss the fretting fists of William Ogden Heath, 27, of Garden City, L. I., struck the punching bag over his head. He was flat on his back, but not for virtuosity in bag punching. His hips and knees were stiff and painful from arthritis. Abnormal deposits of bone made them practically immovable. Drugs, vaccines, sun baths, oven bakings, changes of climate had done him no good. The disease had grown worse, and this backside bag hitting was an intelligent young man's desperate effort to prevent his arm joints becoming...
...Stocky, stiff-pompadoured Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, who has so long obstructed any settlement not in accordance with his views, was sternly warned, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. "Sympathy is naturally accorded to small nations," rapped Sir Austen, "but if a weaker nation [Lithuania] goes out of its way to irritate and provoke a more powerful one [Poland] or shows itself unreasonable, it will deprive itself of the sympathy of its neighbors. . . . Ah, M. Valdemaras, do not cast that sympathy away...
...alumni who have sentimental attachment to their own particular club. But these alumni try to kept sentiment out of business. Might it not be worthwhile to look reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment is restricted, the clubs cannot stand still. The competition is there and the pace is stiff. The underlying spirit of loyalty to the cub system is all right, but there is no special sanctity attached to the form. The clubs might well abandon their defensive attitude and give thougt to the course of future development. There are no panaceas for the club problem, but there...
...University baseball team finally broke into the winning column again yesterday afternoon, defeating a nine composed of former Crimson stars, after a stiff argument, by the score of 6 to 4 on Soldiers Field...