Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin...
...handle," but that 20 minutes before the collision "it was impossible to keep the Mohawk on her course." Against this Deck Engineer Snyder reported he had tested the steering mechanism ten minutes before the crash, and again after it, that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right in every way." Second Assistant Engineer Parry testified that the Mohawk's steering motor had frozen during cold weather a year ago, forced the helmsman to bring her into port with the emergency hand steering gear. But he was sure it had not frozen last week...
Since the Penn game, where the Feslermen gave the visitors the start of their season, and showed at last that the honorable game of basketball can be played on the banks of the Charles, the team has had a series of stiff drills, ironing out all rough spots, and attempting to build up the stamina necessary for League competition...
...time by towering Otto Klemperer.* The concerto was Beethoven's Emperor, a performance that Philadelphians will long remember for its masterly blend of power and tenderness. Mozart and Schubert will have a place on Schnabel's recital programs this winter. But for New Yorkers he has another stiff Beethoven test. Next week he will play the Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. Said he to his manager last week: "You may warn the public, if you like, that they will occupy 53 minutes...
...three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back...