Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With bands blaring, salutes thundering from the minuscule Polish Navy, and a regiment of Poland's oversized, thoroughly potent Army stiff at attention, up the Pilsudski's mast climbed the flag of Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
Despite the stiff back he will have received from sitting wedged among his contemporaries on the floor, despite the weight of chicken a la king reposing in his stomach, the homeward bound Freshman will have a distinct feeling of stimulation and of pleasurable anticipation for the future...
Poker-faced, Diplomat Murray heard the unhappy oilmen out. After they left he dashed to Secretary Hull, who suggested that Standard Oil return at 3 p. m. Sharp at 3, the oilmen and Diplomat Murray were closeted with stiff, didactic Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. Dr. Hornbeck soon went downstairs to tell Secretary Hull that Standard Oil had arrived, the actual introduction of Messrs. Walden & Dundas being made by Near East Chief Murray...
...practice, Egypt has the status of an "independent kingdom" controlled by the British Government. As Britons return home from bearing the white man's burden in Egypt they are apt to join the Nile Club and last week in London this civil-servantish clique mustered its tailcoats and stiff shirts, its last year's evening gowns and small family pearls to be addressed by His Excellency the Ethiopian Minister, Dr. Azaj Wargneh C. Martin and his 9-year-old son, John Martin...
...title. A criminal in Addiet, remote mountain city, was sentenced to "death by fire, in muslin," for having shot at the native prince. Rolls of muslin were dipped in hot wax and honey, wrapped in layers around the prisoner, almost entirely covering him except for his eyes and nose. Stiff-legged, he was stood up in the centre of a small fire. "It was early morning; cows lowed. The witnesses smelled the perfume of honey given out by the living candle. . . . At this precise moment some slight things happened which did honor to humanity. One of the Whites present...