Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff session with the Federal money bag, he passed out $322,000,000 worth of local work relief allotments among a crowd of favor-seekers who were frantic lest he depart on his four-week journey without taking care of them...
...League was to make in public the decision reached in private. Two minutes before this public session began, Italy's delegation, led by eagle-bald Baron Pompeo Aloisi, ceremoniously retreated. Retiring to the League's bar the Italians each grasped a cocktail, formed themselves into a stiff circle and grimly upped bottoms in a silent toast, then withdrew to their hotel...
...misty afternoons when a cat's-paw, brushing the surface of the Sound, was visible for half a mile. Skipper Shields, better acquainted with the waters, handling a boat whose underwater design gave her as much advantage running before a light breeze as Norna had tacking into a stiff one, stalked the Norwegian boat like a cat, blanketing the wind out of her sails on a reach, keeping her to leeward against the weather, outfooting her on the last leg home...
Facing his first stiff re-election fight in years, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah turned up at the Parma, Idaho, Fall Festival, treated each & every Parma moppet to a merry-go-round ride...
Irreverent operagoers will always giggle to see fat, formal singers decked with feathers and emitting feeble whoops. Nor were many impressed with the Metropolitan's stiff, loud-lunged "Puritans" who choired in Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. In Boston next week and in Manhattan nine days later audiences will at least see and hear something different...