Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none but his native language-told his grinning host that he, too, had been a mayor once but found...
...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
...Delaney's whizzing fists dropped Berlenbach to one knee. Berlenbach arose and moved forward with Delaney dancing in and out and more fists whizzing, now to Berlenbach's crushed nose, now to his gloomy mouth, now to his heaving midriff. None of Berlenbach's long, stiff blows were steered anywhere near dancing Delaney. At the end, the referee's course was plain before him and he took it. The ladies of Bridgeport, Conn., where amiable young Delaney trains and where he is often called "Gentleman Jack," can now enlist, for their teas and charity sociables...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
...never fear. Castigator Lewis is too full of important messages for mankind to let even this slender opportunity escape him. Joe's little Alverna is soon revealed in her true cosmetics?an incorrigible, shallow flirt, bored stiff by Joe's backwoodsmanhood. She tempts Prescott until he has to run away to save his honor; then she overtakes him and completes the seduction. The runaways are pursued through the wilderness by a forest fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches...