Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-powered car purred through the forest of Fuente de la Teja. Reclining in the tonneau were a stiff young fellow in military trimmings, and a cadaverous-faced, hook-nosed individual with all the bored air of a man of the world. King Alfonso was going to visit the new water works which are to supply Madrid...
...followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
Against the flare he had just set off stood the aviator immobile as a statue, while the landscape, leaping out of shadow at the summons of his fantastic torch, assumed around him an aspect of exaggerated horror; water-rotted trees at the river's edge stretched their arms in stiff attitudes of torment, like ghouls petrified in the death-agony; the motionless grain at his feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare...
...grounds of Buckingham Palace, two royal tea parties were given by the King and Queen. These simple, democratic functions, inaugurated after the War, are said to do the King more good than a stiff Scotch and soda. Peers, Ambassadors, Princes of India, clergymen, social leaders of every strata -some in toppers, patent leather shoes and formal afternoon attire, others in humble headgear, stouter footwear and business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence...
...effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black eye for being heavy of foot and stiff of limb. At this point, Fascist Deputies prevented further insurrection by urging the local Black Shirts to remain calm and Signor Amendola to leave town...