Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married to the U. S. national hero and Mexico's Plutarco Elias Calles was calling Ambassador Morrow one of his best friends. Then to the London Naval Conference, then to stand for the Senatorial seat left awkwardly vacant when Senator Edge was sent as Ambassador to France. Bucking stiff Democratic opposition, Dwight Morrow refused to make Prohibition a campaign issue but denounced it rationally, sailed into the Senate one of the biggest little men of affairs, of experience, of generosity of opinion that ever was seated there. People missed him last week. As sheaf upon sheaf of telegrams piled...
...bristling 40-minute scrimmage, the first stiff one of the week, Harvard's first football squad ran easily over the seconds yesterday, beating them by a score of 20 to 0 in the enclosed practice grounds on Soldiers Field. The workout was the last of the week, for the entire team will rest today and go to the Boston College-Catholic University game at Fenway Park as guests of the Eagles. This game, incidentally, is the initial football game of 1931 in this locality...
This afternoon the A and B elevens from which Casey must pick a team to face Bates in the season's opener on October 3 will have their first stiff practice since Saturday, when they take the field against Coach Knox's Seconds. A C-team scrimmage with the Seconds yesterday resulted in one score. D. E. Peters '34 caught a punt on the Second's 35-yard stripe and wriggled through a broken field. Nevin kicked the extra point...
...Governor Oliver Max Gardner turned his back on the South and appealed to President Hoover for a special cotton session of Congress on the ground that the problem was national and international. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma (estimated crop: 1,254,000 bales) talked about a stiff tariff on long staple cotton, vaguely praised "uniform laws...
...Belize paid any attention to the warning. Instead, one afternoon last week the citizenry turned out to watch a parade of school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity, contorted, smashed into Belize at 2:30 p. m. with the vindictive shriek and speed of a racing...