Word: stalwarts
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...wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some tennis courts where the sun was furnace-hot. Nurmi jogged freshly to his shower...
Great-nephew of the wizard-of-oil, son of William G. Rockefeller, grandson of James Stillman, this stalwart scion of honorable American lines, gazed, brooding, on the horizon. Bending among his men on a mid-thwart, he had swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...
Luscious verbiage, hanging from heavily laden political boughs, began to fall into the inviting laps of stalwart citizens. The harvest season of election was not yet at hand, but the overburdened limb of speech no longer could sustain its fruit...
...hero is a stalwart youth of the small college type and arrives as a Freshman with hopes and aspiration high. Through the succeeding years he is subjected to the many temptations around him, succumbing to each in turn, only to be resuced at the last moment by Dame Fortune wearing even more stalwart youth's trousers. His ideals vanish. His "false Gods" topple over. He comes to the conclusion that college has been a failure. A Pollyanna is needed and Professor Henley rises to the occasion. In a long and immature discourse he attempts to justify college, cynically declaring that...
...most pathetic figure " at the funeral ceremonies of President Harding, was, according to one press report (the Daily News, New York), not Mrs. Harding, but Attorney-General Daugherty. "He nearly collapsed. . . . His stalwart body was convulsed with sobs . . . His face twitched ... He poked at his eyes with his black gloves in an effort to stem the tears ... He was a picture of desolation . . . He gulped and choked and would not look at the coffin...