Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns in a red Pontiac sedan that suddenly rolled alongside a monster Havana parade of ABC men, women and children. The guns killed twelve, four of them women, wounded more than 60. The parade went on but stiff-jawed ABC men stepped out of line and went in pursuit. They shot and burned four men in the red car, shot three in another. ABC Man Joaquin Martinez Saenz, Secretary of the Treasury, said: "When the ABC consented to join in the Mendieta Government we suggested strong measures...
They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
...followed by an ambitious two-day music festival. This year, above all others, they wanted to show what they could do. Their choir was building a reputation as the best choral organization in the U. S. And it had undertaken Bach's B Minor Mass, a stiff test for seasoned professionals. Besides, it wanted to show why it had been invited to Soviet Russia this summer as the first musical group to represent...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst...
...bony white mongrel was no longer crawling on his mat. He was walking, slowly, with stiff, dragging hind legs and vacant eyes. He ate regularly but without enthusiasm. Dr. Cornish realized that part of the dog's brain was still dead, might remain so for months or years of apathetic existence...