Word: stouter
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...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...
...more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many sensible people feel that he would not, that encouraging the use of wine and beers in the dining halls would, as it were, short-circuit his craving for stouter stuff, and that the comparative austerity of the Houses would prevent unseemliness...
...Stouter-hearted readers pondered well Major Darwin's proposals...
...stouter of the two curmudgeons produced a watch shaped like a turnip...
...Queen. These simple, democratic functions, inaugurated after the War, are said to do the King more good than a stiff Scotch and soda. Peers, Ambassadors, Princes of India, clergymen, social leaders of every strata -some in toppers, patent leather shoes and formal afternoon attire, others in humble headgear, stouter footwear and business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden Smith of Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Heinz, Pittsburgh; Conde Nast...