Word: stouter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though poetry may not be a profession, Louis Untermeyer has seemed to prove that there is a profession in it. His anthologies of modern poetry have sold 478,081 copies in the U. S.* getting stouter with every edition. They are standard in newspaper libraries, as obituary material on poets, and indispensable to teachers of literature, as candy at the end of term...
...Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...
Brig. General Charles H. Cole last week made the painful discovery that a State convention cannot always deliver Massachusetts Democracy in the primary. No candidate for Governor of that State ever entered a primary campaign with better patched fences, stouter political lines than General Cole. Governor Ely was for him. Senator Walsh was for him. The deathlessly faithful following of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Vaulting from the platform of a private railroad car, a stouter but no less jaunty Douglas Fairbanks returned to Hollywood for the first time since the news of divorce proceedings put his name back into the headlines. But to inquisitive newshawks he would say nothing about the suit filed against him in California by his wife Mary Pickford, nor the suit filed in Britain by Lord Ashley against Lady Sylvia Ashley in which he appears as corespondent. Was he going abroad again? ''I do not expect to go back to England...
...year-old Methodist churchman who somewhat resembles an older, stouter Franklin D. Roosevelt sat by his radio one night last week in his home in Madison, N. J. He tuned in on a broadcast from Constitution Hall in Washington, where was being celebrated the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Had his health permitted, Dr. Frank Mason North would have joyfully been present. He, more than any other man, had helped found the Federal Council, was its president for four years (1916-20), is still a member of its executive committee...