Word: stooped
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...career of perpetual paradoxes. He was stoutly opposed to Secession. He freed his own slaves years before the Civil War. Yet he became the outstanding champion of the causes of Secession and Slavery. He was a mild-mannered Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop within battle-fire to restore a fledgling sparrow to its nest. But he achieved international fame in the profession of killing men. He attacked as he retreated, he retreated as he attacked. His strategy made of his opponents' successes Pyrrhic victories, brought him triumph by losing in the art which aims only...
Morenz is stoop shouldered with skinny legs. Possessed of that tiny fraction of speed which slips him around a twisting enemy, he is the highest scorer in either the International or American Divisions of big league hockey. Statistics issued last week give Morenz 22 goals. His teammate Aurel Joliat has 20. The highest scorer in the American Division is Hay, Detroit...
...been said of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 62, present and 17th Earl of Derby, that he could no more do a mean action than stoop to flatter a fool. In that apothegm is the key to the understanding of his character. A big, burly, slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...
...vicinity of the Washington Monument. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee was telling the rest of the land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...