Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...
...traveling to Princeton this afternoon, the remainder of the University track squad and the 1935 team will be struggling for honors in the trials of the third annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate track meet at Soldiers Field beginning at 3 o'clock. With most of the Crimson entrants untried in stiff competition, Coach Ryder's well-balanced team from Boston College and a strong aggregation from Northeastern are the favorites in the University meet. The Harvard Freshman team should run away with the 1935 events...
There is young Count Enna of the Tyrol who lives in the schloss on the hill and there is an inn-keeper's daughter who lives in the valley below. The boy is no stiff-necked nobleman; he goes roaming the fields with the girl beside him; and in their lovemaking this pair is as pleasant to see as the Tyrolian Alps that surround them. Though for generations the youngest son of the house of Enna has served the Church, this boy in the feathered cap only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made...
...largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton...
...Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make his budget speech, cast a quick glance up at the packed public galleries...