Word: stalwart
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...light sampan sailed over tiny crisping wavelets of Kamakura, a stalwart bodyguard of two policemen squatted respectively at bow and stern. The Premier's secretary, deft, obsequious, baited his hook...
...which were sparsely dotted with exhibits. He met some mustachioed Slavic friends who told him of a mysterious Treasure Island, of a quaint restoration of an 18th Century street, to the east of which towered a shining Oriental building, essence of India. He walked wonderingly on, viewed fireworks, stalwart live stock, grassless lawns, a stadium...
...trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind...
Among those aboard the Norge was a stalwart named Amundsen. Despatches did not give his first name, simply calling him "young Amundsen." Had he by chance been named Roald, confusion might have arisen, for "the" Roald Amundsen ? "Old Amundsen"* as the despatches may yet have it ? was at Oslo, Norway, being dined and wined by his countrymen, in company with his fellow explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth. They will join Colonel Nobile on the Norge at Spitzbergen and form a joint command...
...amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will be known as Lord Irwin, Viceroy and Governor General of India...