Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a stiff breeze and chop as well as a strong current making rowing conditions far from ideal, Coach Whiteside's Varsity eights splashed up to the second bridge and back yesterday on their first trip this year. The number one boat went remarkably well considering the circumstances, although adjustment of riggers and slides tended to make the boat difficult...
Halsted Ritter, for 30 years a Denver lawyer before he went to Florida, was appointed as a Republican by President Coolidge in 1929. On the bench he was apt to be a little stiff, sometimes peppery. Once when a bootlegger thanked him for imposing a fine of only $50, Judge Ritter roared: "Don't thank me! To thank a court or a jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised to $75." He was first investigated as the result of a resolution introduced in the House by Representative J. Mark Wilcox of Florida...
...fought for freedom, seemed revolutionary when she appeared in soft Grecian costumes rather than stiffly-starched tarlatan, interpreted music according to her own personal reaction. The great Isadora had an influence on the Russian Choreographer Michel Fokine who did most to emancipate the ballet from its rigid routine, its stiff, old-fashioned patterns. But the classical technique persists, still holds claim to first importance wherever ballet is given...
...onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff-shirted officials that he, as well as the old standbys, deserved a trip to Berlin for the summer Olympics...
Thus there is nothing acute in President Angell's analysis, and nothing original in his stand. It is definitely heartening, however, to see that Yale discerns and sympathizes with the humiliation of Harvard. Furthermore, the tone of the language of Yale's head promises stiff, virile opposition to the possible imposition of any sacramental fetishes on Connecticut...