Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense. The editor of The American Mercury is stalwart, hearty, genial, lovable. He is so entirely forthright that one is immediately impressed with the fact that he is at heart a Puritan. He exudes stern morality. He is obviously a good mixer and not prejudiced at all. It is quite evident the moment one has shaken his hand, that...
...opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender of the political and social dogmata of the chamber of commerce, and accepts as his standard the business man's stamp of O. Keness...
What an amazing man he is. Simple, stalwart, with his waving hair, his clinging eyes, his dreamy voice? yet for all this shyness, this modesty, both in personality and in print, a furious and insistent egotist. His future, it seems to me, depends largely on his ability or inability to come to some conclusion about himself. He should go a step farther in his egocentric career. He should come out boldly to himself with the statement that he undoubtedly believes what many of his critics announce. Why not say it out loud, Mr. Anderson: "I am the American Balzac...
...Caucasian race to migrate into Europe", he said, "they are now centuries behind the other European races in point of development. Part of this backwardness is due to the Paris Peace Conference which although it made the mountainous section of Albania independent, cut off 200,000 of these stalwart people, from their plains and prairies, without setting up any machinery to help them take advantage of their independence, or to educate them to their responsibilities...
Over 200 patient researchers, poring for years through masses of records and data which, if filed, would require 200 miles of shelving, will soon have produced 200 stalwart volumes entitled The Economic and Social History of the World War, a survey than which nothing more monumental was ever undertaken in the history of History...