Word: stalwarts
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...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...
...line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission was perfectly plain. That stalwart Republican newspaper was echoing a widespread belief that Bill Douglas was a financial radical of as deep a dye as the New Deal has yet produced...
...call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash with regularity," duplicated for the Irish and Welsh the dirty deals his family had received...