Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island R.R.'s one rotary snowplow was derailed, crushing a trainman to death. A rotoetcher of the New York Times froze to death in his stalled car before an automobile, a police emergency car and an ambulance could reach...
Well into the stormy afternoon three flying officers-George F. McDermott, James H. Rothrock. William S. Pocock Jr. -took off from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. for Langley Field, Va. to pick up mail planes. Their amphibian was not in the air ten minutes before it became unmanageable in the stiff wind. They alighted in a heavy sea off Rockaway Point. When a Coast Guard and a Navy destroyer steamed up, the amphibian had drifted off into the dusk. The Navy boat finally picked up the flyers five miles away. Lieut. McDermott had been washed overboard. His exhausted companions were hospitalized...
...starting lineup will be the same as that of the Cornell game, where, after a disastrous start, the Crimson rallied sharply, and fought the fast Ithacan quintet on ever terms for the rest of the game. Brown's team, while not outstanding, is expected to give Fesler's men stiff competition. Richard G. Fletcher '35, who was high scorer in Thursday's game, is again expected to contribute largely to the Harvard total. HARVARD BROWN Fletcher, r.f. l.f., Floren Merry, l.f. r.f., Malkowski Boys, c. c., Morse Henderson, r.g. l.g., Hammer Ferriter, l.g. r.g., Samdperil
...result that last week the American Society of Miniature Painters was able to hold its 35th exhibition in Manhattan. Months ago each artist bought little slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper, 20th Century miniaturists daubed on pure water colors. Then they had something they could sell, if a portrait, for from...
...stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold...