Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left eye). The chairless back row looked far more happy than the front, like the carefree junior editors of a college publication who are always relegated to the back of the yearbook picture. They did not have to worry about hands, feet or the bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted...
...Stalwart Eddy Decker, Yale's defensive fullback, will bear watching. An ever-present bulwark to be met by Harvard ball-carriers, a veritable basket to throw forward passes into, and a powerful place of interfering material on the offense. Decker has an indomitable grit and spirit that keeps his teammates plugging. Garvey and Hammersley, both skillful runners, fair punters, and game youngsters will ably fill the missing Caldwell's place...
...wish! A wish!" cried a be-sandaled, be-kimonoed woman to His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito as his automobile slowed up to enter the palace gates. Stalwart police seized her; the Emperor passed...
Dracula; nor can their stalwart escorts. It is a chamber of horrors to raise the most jaded hair. Viewed technically it has its faults of mechanics and an occasional unevenness of interest. It is well but by no means perfectly played. Yet the material is morbidly magnificent. And of course it is all perfectly silly...
...appearance of the October number of Poland, a monthly magazine published in the U. S. and devoted to serious discussions of the condition of Poland, sent a thrill of ill-concealed horror through stalwart, patriotic Poles resident...