Word: stouter
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...Melody Man. Lew Fields, after an absence, returned to Broadway, a bit more leisurely, a bit stouter, but still screamingly pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which...
...German Professor, father of the girl, cames up panting: " Let him be tried by law." They reach the bridgehead. The leader calls for a stouter rope. Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...
...Vassar they wave a distaff over the heads of the professors, and threaten to force all their instructors to undergo grading by the student body. At New Haven they wield a stouter weapon. "The Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with...
...finch - for it is one of the finch family - is about the size of a Robin but of stouter build, with short neck. a round head and thick strong bill. The colors vary with age and sex. In immaturity the prevailing tints are yellowish brown, or bronze as it as often termed, and ash or slate gray. Mature females are of a rich yellowish bronze and ash while old males wear a rosy tint which sometimes changes to deep carmin, on head, rump and breast...
...have changed, Tom!' she said. 'You are so much taller and stouter, and such a delicious waltzer. You are not at all like the gentleman whom I mistook for you in the street...