Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches...
...West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...
...Stiff Dive Competition...
...whole darn prom was here, elbow room and all, and I really looked pretty hot. Just then I got in a fight with some guys who I crash were thinking because they had stiff shirts on and they busted in three of my window panes. So I went down the towel shoot to avoid bumping into the crowds coming in the doors. But I bumped into some climb trying to rat up the shamn doot...
...There is some indication," said hardworking, stiff-collared George Bucher, former executive vice president, "that the company's business may turn upward in the next few months." So saying, he took office as new president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Westinghouse Electric (second in size to immense General Electric in the field of electrical equipment) in 1937 showed a $20,000,000 profit, the highest since 1929. But a better basis for Mr. Bucher's optimism was that at year's end Westinghouse had $63,000,000 of unfilled orders, enough to keep it busy for four...