Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great...
...flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous scraping sound no more like the big-bellied voice of a real train than the imitation puffing that any trap-drummer can produce with a pair of wire brushes. Chaney acts well; he even walks in the stiff-shoulder fashion of old trainmen. At times he gets into the unreal story the dramatic flavor of its background. Best shot: Chaney feeling the driving-pinions, worn smooth by thousands of miles on the road, of his old engine dismantled in the shops. Charming Sinners (Paramount). Believing, probably correctly, that...
...with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman Owen D. Young saved his Plan by getting Herr Schacht and colleagues to promise that Germany would discuss marks with Belgium immediately after the Paris conferences were finished. Last week, quietly in Brussels, this agreement...
German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
...Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon to unite as Republicans...