Word: stout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STOUT...
...West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes, "You probably knew a while back...
...getting into show biz, contracting out for guest appearances and bickering over billing. (Would the Queen get first billing over the title because of royal privilege, or would Steiger outrank her because he won an Oscar?) Hennessy, the matter at hand, turns out to be a reasonably stout if rather unoriginal thriller about an Irish demolitions expert who swears vengeance on the British Empire...
...businesses. The fact-finding business still exists, but since 1954 it has fallen into the growing shadow of the Guinness Book. As the McWhirters tell it, a college teammate of theirs who had gone to work for Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd. ("the largest exporter of beer, ale and stout in the world," as the book faithfully records) decided that there ought to be a recognized authority for settling disputes in pubs, and commissioned them to produce one. They sat down, consulted their accumulated lists of useless facts from newspapers and other sources, looked up other facts in reference works...
Consumers are planning to spend their rebates dutifully. "I guess we'll spend it, since that's what the President wants us to do," said Mrs. Naomi Stout, a housewife who lives in Newark, Del. John DeFazio, president of a steelworkers local in Pittsburgh, thinks that most of his fellow union members will use the money to pay off debts "because things haven't stabilized enough to go on a buying spree...