Word: heartener
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...Raus mit dem Schieber!" bawled stentorian voices. "Out with the slippery guy!" Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
This election, he said, "should hearten the confidence of every believer in government by the people...
...Scotch in husbandry, he was Scotch in fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening of the next day, as Earl Haig...
...potent in Lehigh Valley finances, did go to Philadelphia ? hastily. He was venerable Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 79, head of Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan. In Florida for winter's holiday, he risked no contretemps but took train in time to hearten by his pre ence at the meeting President Edward Eugene Loomis of the Lehigh Valley...
...Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...