Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity squad was run through a stiff 20-minute scrimmage against Brown plays put on by the Seconds yesterday. A long drill on fundamentals won followed by another hard session on pass defense, and as a light mist hung over the field, the white ball was brought out at the end of the practice to finish off with a long signal drill...
...another stiff scrimmage tomorrow. The University coaches are looking forward to the Brown game as perhaps being an even harder one than the Dartmouth clash, and will spare no effort to get the Harvard team into the best condition possible for the conflict...
...night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting her fingers and looking wan, tries to make it a serious business. Neither succeeds...
...Mahatma or Great Soul seemed to twist around his scrawny finger last week the United Kingdom Government, some 220,000.000 Hindus of all castes (from exalted Brahmins to debased Untouchables) and even the ramrod-stiff British...
...Tinko [Mrs. Pawley] is wonderfully brave and cheery, but she can't stand this sort of thing forever. We've done nothing but eat and sleep for a week. We are filthy and bored stiff, but we're both fit and well treated...