Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Elsa Maxwell, rich California socialite who lives in Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons...
...rouge becomes me, and I know I shall have to take to it if I consent to let you see me," wrote Miss Terry at the outset. Later she said: "I didn't like you when you first wrote to me. I thought you unkind and exceedingly stiff and prim." In 1896 when Shaw was beginning to be recognized as a playwright Miss Terry determined to call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt...
...Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when a stiff punch in the nose is called...
Gradually, it may be seen, that the acquisition of culture is becoming less dependent on the stiff pedagogy of the lecture platform and assuming a more informal, palatable shape. It has been realized that a pleasant environment conduces both to easier and more profitable study. This fine arts counterpart of the literary Farnsworth room will be a source of pleasure for the many who find the coldly formal atmosphere of the average library or museum distasteful...
John Marin was born in Rutherford, N. J. 60 years ago. His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian...