Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Emile Franqui stood stiff, straight, plump and proud, last week, while a deep red grand cordon was adjusted across his breast in the manner of the transverse strap of a Sam Brown Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto...
...form. Down the ice, he is aggressive, breaking through the opposing line by sheer force rather than by subtle stick handling, and keeping his feet despite heavy jolting. He is at all times willing to mix things up with opposing forward lines, and he relishes nothing so much as stiff sessions of body checking...
...most strenuous schedule that a Harvard court team has ever faced will begin on December 17, when the strong Boston University quintet will visit the University floor. This is the only tilt before the vacation, but the M. I. T. battle on January 8 will start the list of stiff engagements, which extends to March 5, when the season comes to its climax against Yale in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...fashion in men's wear was thereby established. The mark of the businessman, the sign of his dignity, had been the stiff collar. Now the semisoft collar took its place on half the necks of the U. S. It was comfortable, and wives could launder it themselves...
During the last 15 years the U. S. collar industry has become highly concentrated. Whereas in 1910 there were 35 manufacturers, there now are but 10 concerns, whose annual business totals $25,000,000,* half in stiff collars, half in soft. Cluttt, Peabody's Arrow collars are the best sellers-$15,000,000 yearly. Then comes the Van Heusen brand-$5,000,000. George P. Ide Co. is third. (Ninety per cent of U. S. collars are made at Troy...