Word: stanching
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...affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...
...Chicago Defender (82,059),a stanch Republican organ for 35 years until Editor Robert Sengstacke Abbott died last February, declared for Roosevelt...
...editor of the Chicago Tribune, and radio Writer-Producer-Director Blair Walliser. Originally Quill was known as The Crimson Wizard, and in the beginning neither Lee nor Walliser was certain whether their man was a menace or a hero. Last fall it was decided he ought to be a stanch American, and ever since then Walliser has held him on the patriotic line...
...laymen led the field in the election for moderator: a stanch New Dealer, 71-year-old ex-Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, and a 35-year-old Maine Republican, Ronald Bridges, brother of New Hampshire's Senator H. Styles Bridges. Sweet won by 16 votes. Slight, precise Congregationalist Sweet retired from a thriving brokerage business in Denver in 1920, "to give my full time to politics and religion," believes in the "application of the Christian religion to social and economic life...
Died. Daniela Thobe, about 80, granddaughter of the great Hungarian Composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), stepdaughter of the great German Composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83); in Bayreuth, Germany. Daniela's father, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow, was a stanch friend cf Wagner until his wife ran off with Wagner; and Daniela's half-brother was Wagner's illegitimate son, Siegfried...