Word: stalwart
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...thee. O Canada, where pines and maples grow, Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow, How dear to us the broad domain, From east, to western sea. Thou land of hope for all who toil Thou true north, strong and free. O Canada, beneath thy shining skies May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise, To keep thee steadfast through the years From east to western sea, Our Fatherland, our Motherland, Our true north, strong and free.- Chorus. Ruler Supreme, who hearest humble prayer Take us and all men in thy loving care, Help us to find, O God, in Thee...
...Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none...
...dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint...
...mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There, on the island called Komodo, they had seen a portent-two enormous captive dragons, ten feet long, with claws...
...neighbor, knowing well Pup-buryer Mazarak's mettle, ventured no objection, telephoned the S. P. C. A. A stalwart policeman came. Frenzied digging by Mr. Mazarak resulted in the exhumation of one pup who still whimpered...