Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first broke into sporting headlines two years ago when he rose toward the end of the season to first string ranks, and in the desperate Crimson defense against a more powerful Yale eleven which brought forth the famed 0.0 tie of that year he stood out as the moot stalwart of all barriers in the path of the Eli progress...
Others were: Count Albert Ap-ponyi, grand old man of Hungary, stalwart, patriarchal, kindly; Diarmuid O'Hegarty of the Irish Free State, soporific by his extreme laxity; Michael MacWhite, also of the Irish Free State, onetime Foreign Legionnaire, rough and ready...
...Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
...decorator made known his errand at the Lihme apartment building to a suavely superior individual in grey livery, John Healy, stalwart doorman; and was formally admitted. He ascended to the Lihme floor, entered the apartment, halted, gazed awestruck. Gulping with astonishment he called back the elevator man, who summoned blue arms of the law, who brought detectives and newsgatherers in their train. Soon the Lihme apartment-once imposing, now dismaying-was filled with a buzz of talk, excited, threatening, incredulous, ominous. With the aid of stalwart Doorman Healy whose front changed from polite surprise to bitter penitence, the time...
...been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more than six feet tall, onetime football stalwart at Purdue University, inspired awe in these Indians. Commander Dyott believes that the same bandits who annoyed Mr. Gow-Smith, also annoyed...