Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talked for a minute or two through his megaphone, his words carrying out to his charges on a stiff breeze and seemingly booming back from the Boston wall. It sounded something like, "Get more weight behind that catch." He turned again to his interviewer and remarked, "No, rowing isn't everything in a crew race...
Year ago Britain had a deficit of ?32,279,000. In announcing his very stiff budget for the year Neville Chamberlain hoped publicly for a surplus of ?1,300,000 but privately was ready to consider himself lucky if the budget balanced. In Scotland last week Chancellor Chamberlain went over the figures carefully to see where he had made his happy mistake...
Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...stage. In Hollywood, George Arliss is an extraordinary personage. He stops work every afternoon for a cup of tea, goes home at 4:30 no matter what the cast is doing. His director always addresses him as Mr. Arliss. He dresses in narrow trousers and a high stiff collar, carries change in a purse. Because he and his wife once saw some cattle starving in a drought, Arliss is a vegetarian. His theory ("I eat nothing I can pat") puts fish on his menu. He keeps an elaborate research library to help him with costume parts. He rehearses privately...
...that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look you to it! James LeB. Boyle, II, '36 Thomas G. Ratcliffe '35 J. H. Davidson 2G.B. T. E. Naughten '34 M. deC. Crawford '37 S. S. Taft '34 Irving Greenblatt '36 C. A. Wirtz...