Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a high-minded stalwart, feeling sure he could meet these specifications, quailed at one more requirement. To belong to the 15th U. S. Infantry, you must be able to speak at least 300 words in Chinese...
...Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...
Perhaps Secretary Mellon is right in this defense, but there is an angle of the question, which he has overlooked. Would the stalwart sailors fight at all for their dear ones at home (considering the dear ones in other ports) if those dear ones were deprived of their invaluable cosmetics? Or, contrarywise, would the women of the United States sacrifice their face powder to the lesser cause of gunpowder...
Guadeloupe. Here reside proud, stalwart, race-conscious black. French Colony. Emperor Napoleon lost 3,000 black Guadeloupe soldiers during his retreat from Moscow...
...such pure, understanding tact, observers thought, was finely typical of M. Chiappe. They recalled how he won fame (TIME, June 27) by his quiet, skillful arrest of Leon Daudet, editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved...