Word: stalwartness
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...stalwart men who are objecting most strenuously to this bill are quite wrong in thinking that it will mean a drastic change. For the simple, unavoidable fact is that the President can start a war whenever he so desires. He has no need of declaring an arms embargo. History has borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
Converted to Christianity by a female missionary, a young negress, armed only with her knobkerrie, the African black-jack, and the Bible, sets out through the jungle in search of God. She questions as she meets them: the God of Genesis; a stalwart Roman soldier; Christ himself; St. Peter; Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot...
...first lieutenant. He returned with a Croix de Guerre, sold bonds for a time, entered Virginia's Theological Seminary, was ordained in 1926. For the past six years "Big Tui" has been chaplain at U. S. Military Academy at West Point where-a tall, stalwart, one-time Virginia halfback, an able golfer, tennis player and rider-to-hounds-he is much admired and respected. Last week Chaplain Kinsolving got a new post, the deanship of Long Island Cathedral, which has been vacant since Very Rev. George Paull T. Sargent became rector of Manhattan's smart St. Bartholomew...
...congregation in hymn-singing. Last week U. S. radio-owners learned that they would be able to hear Bishop David talk from England March 17, during a series of international and national Lenten broadcasts* sponsored by the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society. This week London's stalwart Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram leads off. Others: New York's Bishop Manning, Montreal's Bishop Farthing, Washington's Bishop Freeman, Niagara, Canada's Bishop Owen, Chicago's Bishop Stewart...