Word: stalwarts
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...intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore in stalwart Henry Morgenthau Jr. as Undersecretary of the Treasury, swore in Dr. William Irving Myers to succeed Mr. Morgenthau as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration...
...companion show, "Footlight Parade" furnishes in the way of female bodies, what the opener does its best to provide in the way of stalwart males and it needs must be said that it succeeds in this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance...
...fine weather. By the time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...
...Lecture 3 some wit authoritatively approached the blackboard, and changed the writing on the wall to RIGHT CENTRE LEFT. The first tremors of the quake were now felt. A hundred or more leftist students, eager for Change, girded their loins and marched through the CENTRE RIGHT. Simultaneously the stalwart reactionaries of the RIGHT goose stepped over to the LEFT side. The resulting scrimmage around CENTRE gave the delicate seismograph upstairs a bad case of jitters, and fear was felt for Costa Rica or somewhere...
...Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged. But the hard winter trip to their new home discouraged...