Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
These bland British inquiries, as made by Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps at the Wilhelmstrasse, opened with a stiff "protest against" Realmleader Hitler's "unilateral action" in "putting forward, as a decision already arrived at, strengths for military effectives greatly exceeding any before suggested-strengths, moreover, which, if maintained unaltered, must make more difficult if not impossible the agreement of other powers vitally concerned...
...five or six years, then undergo a second six-month period of probation, finally becomes a professed religious by taking a vow of stability which attaches the nun irrevocably to the Society and vice versa. The Madames wear black, with a bonnet-like headdress framing the face in stiff white ruching. Semi-cloistered, they invariably live in large and comfortable convents, give a cup of tea to visiting bishops, Jesuits, papas and mammas, except during Lent...
...other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience to its inane exhilaration and to possible neurosis...
...surpassing all predictions, the Varsity mermen put up a stiff fight against a highly favored Yale team last night in the Indoor Athletic Building and went down to defeat by the close score...