Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should be permanently established here for Harvard runners...
...Hindenburg was offered the historic golden goblet of Stuttgard, a tankard fit for Thor,* brimming with native Suabian wine. Dismayed, he cried, "I certainly can't empty that!" None the less he tippled good-humoredly and downed a stiff Prussian toast...
People resent the sight of a corpse because it reminds them of their own mortality. Cherishing the memory of the dead one, they treat his clay with reverence although secretly detesting the stiff and putrefying souvenir left behind. If a corpse must lie in the same room with the quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been...
...glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured by self-worship-choked to death...
...most uncomfortable and absurd costume in the world is evening dress, the men can still afford to retort: "Isn't that just like a woman?" This misguided Englishwoman proceeds on the absurd premise that people want to dress comfortably. If comfort were the prime object of top hats and stiff shirts, they would give place at once to loin cloths and beads. Ever since garments have risen to the dignity of clothes, they have been ornaments first, and conveniences second; and if they fail in their first function, modern men can console themselves with the reflection that men in general...