Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later in the week the President, like millions of other U. S. stay-at-homes, fiddled with radio dials, inclined his ear to a loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and receptive microphones at a dinner in Manhattan. Told that there was a telephone call from an intimate friend, the President said: "Tell him I'm too busy...
...great number of the football teams throughout the country will run up against their first stiff opposition of the 1929 campaign this Saturday. The majority of the big elevens have so far encountered the usual early season push-overs and no definite line on the real power of these combinations has been gleaned. Plenty has been written about the potentialities of these various elevens; optimism has reigned among their hosts of supporters, but the results of this Saturday's games will reveal the true worth of the teams...
...Harvard team, under the guidance of Rene Peroy, who starts his first year as University coach, will face stiff opposition this season. The opener will be February 12 at Harvard, followed by games away from home with N. Y. U., February 21 and Pennsylvania on the twenty-second of the month. The Army will be met in New York on March 1, Columbia at home on March 8, Yale at home, March 15. The Intercollegiate semi-finals will be held in New Haven on April 5, followed by the finals in New York, April...
...night the detectives watched, muffled in thick cloaks against the chill African night. At dawn a herd of goats ambled down the street, led by a young Spanish boy blowing on a cowhorn. The detectives craned their stiff necks. At each doorway where an empty milk can was standing the goatherd stopped, milked a complacent nanny to the requisite amount, then passed on. Meanwhile the other goats foraged busily. The surprised detectives saw numbers of them make for the alley where stood the French and Spanish cinema billboards, sniff the Spanish posters suspiciously, then turn to the French and pulling...
...Davis '30, who was slated to start the Bates game on Saturday at right tackle, reported with a badly-bruised and stiff elbow. Davis will not see action in the opening game, but is expected to be in good shape the latter part of next week. He and Greeley, quarterback who is hors de combat owing to an elbow injury, are the only members of the Crimson squad seriously injured. Batchelder, Fullam, Wetmore, and Francis Gilligan were also out of yesterday's workout as a result of minor ailments but will be fit for service against Bates...