Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall asleep in the big green chair and come dreams of springtime and zephyrs and lilacs and green pastures and awake cramped and sore but Madame has abandoned her seige for the nonce and my head is lighter. And up to call for my stiff-front shirt from the launderer, and to Kirkland House tonight to see John Gay there enacted his play "Three Hours After Marriage...
...Sugar Institute was founded in 1927 with a stiff "code of ethics" to stamp out various kinds of chiseling then rampant in the sugar refining industry, and incidentally to "promote the consumption of sugar." So profound was the peace that the Institute brought to its harassed industry, so remarkable the immediate rise in the profits of its members, that the Department of Justice grew suspicious that it was a combination in restraint of trade, launched anti-trust proceedings in 1931. The trial lasted six months, the briefs filled 1,500 pages, the testimony 10,000 pages. In 1934 Manhattan...
...stiff are the new taxes on undistributed corporate earnings (up to 27%) that managements are trying to get substantially all 1936 profits into the hands of stockholders before the year-end, when the tax-year for most corporations also ends. Whatever the ultimate effect of this policy may be on corporate finance, the effect on the spendable national income is plain. Total distributions to stockholders in the last three months of this year directly traceable to the tax law, the New York Journal of Commerce estimated last week, will...
...Elis are Scott free from suspicion and all their tricks are quite Klein. Jameson bottles will McTernen heads, and while Green squad of Yale Beckwith Daughters in Blue stands, John's players will make ball fly like Kelleybeans. We don't Fearon, and we'll make them look like stiff, cold Oakes in Winter. The Duck Pond is frozen over and there is no New Haven for Allen players to rest in. Watt do you say on score? I asked Pope last Spring and he said Hessberg in Italy could not aFord to bet. Take some Staples out of Huey...
Bleak days, my fingers stiff in thin cold pigskin gloves, the wind whipping my trouserlegs, numbing my feet so that it hurts to step on them. Such stuff as colds are made...