Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity crew had a short but stiff workout to the Harvard Bridge yesterday afternoon. Present seatings, which will not be changed before Saturday's race except through incapacitation, are as follows: stroke, Cassedy; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Bacon; 5, Bancroft; 4, Hallowell; 3, Simmons; 2, Yeomans; bow, Holcombe; coxswain, Bissell...
Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...questioned as a group as well as singly, the judge often taking part to hasten matters. Seldom is more than an hour taken in selecting a jury. Not so in this case. Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer's elbow. At last the Judge himself comes down...
...statistics, pointed by photographs that would do credit to Dr. Erich Salomon. Civilization in miniature, the Koyukuk's total population is 127 (whites. Eskimos & Indians). Wiseman, the principal town, where Author Marshall had a cabin and spent most of his time, has 48 houses. Marshall took plenty of stiff reading with him. expecting to have time on his hands. but found Wiseman so sociable he seldom had time to read. Thirty-one days in Winter (Dec. 7-Jan. 6) Wiseman never sees the sun, but the winter Marshall spent there was unusually mild: the thermometer's lowest...
...moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included...