Word: stalwartness
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...asking their opinion on "The Sort of Woman You Wish Your Wife to Be," need have no fear. The Women's News Service, Inc., is more than answered in a letter received by the Mayor of Lancaster, Pa., from forty lonesome men of Monson, Wash. The leader of the stalwart band, Mr. R. C. Huggins, declares they are strong and healthy, not a single runt among them. If this appear does not reassure the investigating ladies in New York, nothing will...
CHALLENGE - V. Sackville-West- Doran. Whole governments are deftly juggled to form a pseudohistorical background. The drama of Eve, whose passion is masked by her frivolity; of Julian, her cousin, whose cause she betrays for love of him; of Kato, middle-aged and stalwart woman who dominates him, is played against a glowing kaleidoscope of political intrigue in the Greek islands...
...Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa accepts with alacrity the challenge of the Harvard Chapter to meet on the baseball field for a test of strength, endurance and wits. We have already begun to blister our lily-white hands and arouse disquieting pains in our stalwart right arms...
...Harvard persists in its spirit of academic reserve, of stalwart refusal to admit that the "vox populi" is always the "vox Dei". It has at all times been a leader in American education because it has sought the Truth, and not because it has followed popular clamor. It has insisted on its right to set its own standards, no matter how defective they may have been; and in its students it has recognized the creative power of the individual and the small group as against the control of the crowd. The West may stand for that vague thing we call...
...same hey-day in the blood which becomes intoxicated with a single plangent and stalwart line and clings there, forgetful of all else...