Word: stoutish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopson does not believe in publicity and little has ever been written about him. Even were he as garrulous as man}7 a man of his stoutish build is apt to be, it is doubtful whether he would have much to tell of his life. He has no interest except business, and his business life has been a total immersion in figures. In 1922 he was given his present positions with A. G. & E. Before that he had done work for the Interstate Commerce Commission, had headed the Division of Capitalization in the New York Public Service Commission...
Medium height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...
...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...