Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...military judges, sitting in stiff gold braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...
Outside Philadelphia, Mary Gilmore, 7, and her brother James, 5, plucked flowers, tugged at a strong "root." Out from the soft soil came a woman's stiff finger. The children pulled harder and dragged forth the finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
...April 21), daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. Perhaps the baby, with feminine intuition, realized how near she was to Peter Pan. Despatches told that she stirred in her sleep, wakened for an instant and looked sleepy-eyed at the smiling man in thin-rimmed glasses, white stiff collar, and impeccable frock coat who stood, still atiptoe, beside her crib. Then, with a small pink yawn, Her Royal Highness dismissed Sir James...
...attack. His work on a group of figures for the Fine Arts Building of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
...suspicions are aroused, Magda forgets her initial caution and attempts to explain the life she has led away from home. Immediately the colonel's conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action might proceed to any one of many conclusions. Sudermann very wisely sees the struggle through, shows it up in its many phases, and leaves the future undetermined...