Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
...painted their buildings, and re-gravelled their walks in his honor. In spite of this cordial reception the king issued orders that no one should receive a degree until he had signed the three. Articles of the High Church doctrine. How John Harvard, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker and other stalwart dissenters reconciled themselves to this performance might be an interesting story Probably they had their fingers crossed when they signed...
...company for poor little blind Rose Duncan. However, she gets into their clutches and Jimmie Harrison, hero, goes to the rescue. There is a good bloody fight between Bull and Jimmie, which ends up in blind Rose being squashed all over the floor by a chair swung in the stalwart hands of Bull...
...asking their opinion on "The Sort of Woman You Wish Your Wife to Be," need have no fear. The Women's News Service, Inc., is more than answered in a letter received by the Mayor of Lancaster, Pa., from forty lonesome men of Monson, Wash. The leader of the stalwart band, Mr. R. C. Huggins, declares they are strong and healthy, not a single runt among them. If this appear does not reassure the investigating ladies in New York, nothing will...
CHALLENGE - V. Sackville-West- Doran. Whole governments are deftly juggled to form a pseudohistorical background. The drama of Eve, whose passion is masked by her frivolity; of Julian, her cousin, whose cause she betrays for love of him; of Kato, middle-aged and stalwart woman who dominates him, is played against a glowing kaleidoscope of political intrigue in the Greek islands...