Word: stalwartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in many factory districts throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag...
...summoned a young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene Reynolds, as a young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes...
...young women of the last two decades have taken to bringing so many stalwart sons into the world, sons of six foot and more, that there are more candidates for crews of Eight than the Newell can take care of. So they degraded me to the Weld, that is they graduated me backwards. But I kept up my pulls from the Cambridge Boatclub House for about six weeks after Newell and Weld had closed for the season. Yours truly C. R. Lanman...
...Eternal City is not a large canvas (45½ in. by 59½ in.), but it took the artist two years to conceive, three years to paint. Stalwart, tranquil Peter Blume was 26 when he got a Guggenheim fellowship, took his young wife Ebie to Italy in 1932. They stayed eight months, lived in Florence for a while and then in Rome. Like other travelers in Italy that year they ran into a great deal of marching in celebration of the loth Anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome. They met smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps...
...amusing to hear a Tammany candidate crying out for justice over privilege, and honesty over corruption, this statement focuses serious attention on the District Attorney's office, for it is there that the enforcement of all laws in the City begins. And it is there, where a lone Tammany stalwart has held out during the last four years, that Tammany mis-government has traditionally reigned supreme...