Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary thing took place. A score of armed men stepped out of ambush. The deputies were ordered to move on, which they did. Then the fusillade, the guilty silence, the "discovery" of two stiff black shapes several hours later...
Paul von Hindenburg, took a pen into his stiff, rheumatic fingers and wrote laboriously a letter of condolence...
...since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...
...possible future Empress of Japan was graduated, last week at Washington, D. C., from the Friends' School, a stiff Quaker seat of feminine learning. The graduate, pretty, vivacious, and popular among smart Washingtonians, is Miss Setsu Matsudaira, daughter of Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, and fiancee of Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of the Sublime Emperor...
French will be in stiff competition for points in the broad jump, but is counted on as a certain scorer. Bstes of Penn State is returning to defend his title and meet record set last rear 24 feet 8 and 1.2 inches...