Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...august, sedate, all critics had praise. The chamber music of Haydn was the pièce de résistance. Next to the master, Beethoven, the darling of those who attend the Society's concerts is that same Croatian Kapellmeister, who, when about to compose, donned white tie, stiff shirt, suave black coat and worked by candlelight that the formality so delicately affected in his person might with an equal scrupulousness be reflected in his urbane compositions...
When Portia stood up in the court of Venice as Mercy's high advocate, her pallor framed in a musty periwig, her slimness swaddled in the stiff robes of Justice, she had no right to be there. She had never been admitted to the bar. The publicity given to the admittance of Miss Susan Brandeis (see above) to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court directed interest last week to the history of women...
Having cut his squad of well over half a hundred to the more workable size of 40, Coach Wachter has been sending his charges through a stiff daily drill in the fundamentals of the game. Handling the ball, passing and basket shooting are expected to form the bulk of the practice for some time to come...
...crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms. Many of these characteristics may be traced to the influence of Metzner. Mestrovic's Madonnas are a distinct type, almost a formula. They are a queer, rigid combination of an almost Eastern tradition with Western realism. Somber, stiff figures, a little wistful, a little pathetic, done with long, simple, vigorous lines. Mestrovic's chief claim to consideration is not intellectual. He is ever emotional. He is conspicuously sculptural. His silhouettes are sharp, simplified. His cuts are deep. He makes the spectator constantly conscious of his medium?wood or stone...
...when interviewed by a Crimson reporter yesterday, "is the fact that the Yale Arena burnt down last year, which will rather hurt Yale's chances. This is not only most unfortunate for Yale but for us too. However, we still must look forward to some pretty stiff competition from Princeton...