Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your National Affairs editors and researchers are indeed a stiff-necked race. Of the Jan. 24 issue you administer "a shocked reproof" to them for mistaking the anniversary the Jackson Day dinners celebrate. And on page 12 of the same issue these same recidivists say "Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners...
Bitter cold, plus driving snow & sleet. literally froze military gains stiff in north and central China. In the sunny south, where Japanese troops are not yet operating on a large scale, Japanese pilots busied themselves systematically bombing Canton's rail approaches from both Hankow and Hong Kong. One day this week they bombed in relays for nine solid hours, the heaviest air-strafing yet seen in Japan's war in China...
...during that period. The 286 men laid off in a Levi economy slash during the past six months must be given preference when any rehiring is done. Though it did not win a closed shop, the Guild, by winning its first Chicago contract, sunk a deep wedge in the stiff-backed opposition from Chicago publishers...
...show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
...Like stiff collars, cuff links went out with the War when a name-tag and a wristwatch became enough jewelry for any man to live and die with. Their return is credited largely to shirtmakers who have revived soft French cuffs (folded back) which require links...