Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mornings later the Dixie's company watched a low bank of black clouds creep over the southeastern horizon. By noon a stiff blow was on. By 4 o'clock the Dixie was pitching, rolling and trembling from stem to stern in the grip of a full-sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck...
This was on the Eden side of the Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally...
...deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall's behavior do not argue lack of acumen. Onetime partner in a small-time vaudeville act with Cinema Director Monta Bell, he built up his string of laundries, conveniently situated in a city where the percentage of stiff shirts and white ties is abnormally high, from a single run-down mangling establishment which he inherited from his father. Convivial, impudent and gregarious, George Marshall is entertained at being accused of social climbing. Once he sent his friends a Christmas card which showed him scrambling up a ladder with a laundry...
...creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit of '76 for commercial purposes 20 years ago all the selectmen lost their jobs in the next election. Marblehead's five selectmen quickly revoked their permission...