Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes crossed his legs, lighted his underslung pipe and balanced his stiff straw hat on his knees. Gov. Bryan, after a moment of politeness said, 'Excuse me, General,' and covered his bald and shining dome with his black slouch...
...Prince also proved his ability as a boxer. In the ship's gymnasium, he had a friendly round or so with the ship's instructor. "You want to shoot that left out sharper, sir," said the instructor. The Prince did, and caught him a good, stiff biff on the jaw. He apologized profusely, but his mentor replied, touching his face tenderly, "I deserved all I got from...
...Paul's School, Concord, N. H., moves another figure very visible upon the educational horizon - the Rev. Samuel Smith Drury, rector. Thought of by many as a formalist because of his dignified, clerical presence and rather stiff manner in public, Dr. Drury is at heart, and in method, a humanist. He believes in atmosphere. He believes in being "one of the boys"; walks with them; works with them; remembers their first names forever; keeps abreast of their family affairs. His school is noted rather for the stamp of cultured, urbane gentility that it imparts to its graduates, than...
...offered the headmastership shortly after his 27th birthday. He moved to Mercersburg, Pa., found there a few acres of weeds and one old building, his "school." Today his personality and vision are reflected in a large (550 enrolment), firmly-founded institution with a reputation for vigor, discipline (stiff collars at classes), scholarship, a thoroughgoing democratic spirit...
Throughout the black squares in Betty's checquered career, she had always, paradoxically, the urge to be "respectable." Though she got no further than the urge, she has graciously left us the record of a colorful ascent, blazing her trail through stiff-necked, whale-oil Providence, through outwardly outraged but inwardly envious New York, through the magnificently indifferent French Imperial Court. She knew the horrors and cruelty of the French Revolution and the chaos of the subsequent Restoration; she mingled with French Royalty, later owned the sapphire coronet Napoleon had placed on Josephine's head and the emerald...