Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Freshmen under the leadership of Captain Charlesworth, are expected to put up a stiff fight. They feel that they have the advantage over the Crimson because of the 27 to 17 beating they gave Andover. The comparative scores of the Choate games, however, seem to indicate otherwise. Yale defeated Choate 28 to 17, and Harvard took that school into camp by a 31 to 21 score...
...Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis; the Conservative by the United Synagogue; the Orthodox by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Union of Orthodox Congregations. All these honestly adhere to a fundamental spiritual unity. But in interpretation and in ritual they often hold bitterly apart with a stiff-neckedness persisting from the time of Exodus, when Moses smashed the first stone copy of the Ten Commandments in a rage...
...exchanged between the American and French universities, so better feeling will prevail between the two countries. You know even though the French often try to overcharge Americans they usually prefer them to English. You Americans are so likely to be cordial and friendly, the English are sometimes a little stiff...
...Prince ordered a stiff glass of brandy for the sailor, forgetting that under the Swedish "Goteborg System" spirits can be furnished only when solid food is also ordered. The barmaid, mindful of the law, refused to furnish a glass of brandy to the namesake of that mighty toper, Gustavus Adolphus, unless the Prince would order at least a bit of smorbrod...
...statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...