Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pachmann has invented a new technique of piano playing, a technique the characteristic feature of which is a rigidly stiff wrist. He says that until he had reached the age of 70, what he played was trash, as are trash the present performances of other pianists, who use the old technique. De Pachmann embarks upon an extended tour of the U. S. It will be interesting to see how public and critics respond to pragmatic demonstrations of the new technique, which the pianist protagonizes with such spirited phrases...
...Soviet Foreign Office despatched a stiff note to the Bulgarian Government concerning the expulsion and ill treatment of the Russian Red Cross Mission...
...Mexico President Obregon had to run the gauntlet of stiff criticisms from his opponents. They charged him with having made concessions to the U. S. in order to obtain recognition. These charges rest on a fairly sound basis. Under the agrarian provision of the 1917 Constitution more Mexicans are said to have been dispossessed of their property than U. S. citizens. If President Obregon intends to indemnify the citizens of the U. S., he can hardly fail to do the right thing by Mexican citizens. It seems, therefore, that the Mexican Treasury must groan or Obregon succumb to the jibes...
...perversions of the time beats that gives jazz its peculiar flavor-naturally, because they are good musicians trained to the sacred principle of accurate rhythm, the foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played jazz is a frightful row, stiff, harsh and unattractive. It is even worse than the genuine American jazz, though it does not so greatly offend the refined instincts of accurate time of those bred to high music...
Tufts has an experienced nine that should offer stiff opposition, having won 13 of its 21 games so far this season. Yale it easily defeated by a 15 to 9 count, but it has suffered two defeats at the hands of both Holy Cross and Boston College, Boston University, Bates, Wesleyan, and Fordham were all on its list of victims...