Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after day the planes came. Politely a Japanese naval spokesman in Hankow said that raids would continue daily until Chungking's "spirit of resistance is broken." Each day the foolish, childish Chinese looked into the sky and wondered whether the planes would come. When they did, the stolid, fascinated faces of those about to die watched them, with a hate which would not be broken even if the Japanese bombed until the whole 750-foot rock of Chungking was blasted to sea level...
...Unlike most jumpers, Hitchcock's are neither converted flat racers nor hunters. He buys weanling thoroughbreds (both in Europe and the U. S.), with infinite patience and understanding, develops them into extraordinarily tractable jumpers. As yearlings, when most thoroughbreds are mighty kickuppy, Hitchcock's pets are as stolid as plow horses, let stable boys shinny up & down their legs, take barriers again & again with no temperament...
Amateur, U. S. Open, British Amateur, British Open. Last week, when America's Big Shots began marching through Georgia's pine-lined, Jones-designed National Golf Club course, there were four co-favorites in the field of 59: stoic Byron Nelson, U. S. Open champion; stolid Ralph Guldahl, two-time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet...
...Metropolitan's Mélisande, pretty Helen Jepson, in a wig as long as the locks of the famed Seven Sutherland Sisters, was a stolid princess of whom Debussy would never have said, as he did of Mary Garden, that hers was "the gentle voice I had been hearing within me, faltering in its tenderness. . . ." The Metropolitan orchestra, noodling along under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were...
...Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...