Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
...Bowman Co.; in Glendale another thriving shop. In Seattle it began to negotiate for the ten Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash) eight stores of the Stout-Lyons Drug Co. Portland, Ore., will be the headquarters of a further string of stores, which the Company expects to acquire in every important city on the Pacific Coast...
...this instance three of the submarine's crew escaped through the conning tower of the S-51 as she sank. The crew of the M1, less fortunate, perished to a man. Like the Vidar, the City of Rome was unharmed. The hulls of submarines are not so stout as those of surface ships...
Sneered certain backbiting gossips: "The King has gone out to hunt with Edward Guinness, who made his millions out of Guinness Stout. He has been an Earl for only six years...
Last week in Constantinople, energetic Prefect Emin Bey of the police force issued to his henchmen stout planks bristling with nails. "Throw these," said he, "before speeding motor cars. If they cannot stop, their tires will be sorely, multitudinously punctured." A scientifically infallible method of testing brakes! The Prefect's regulations included instructions to chauffeurs and coachmen not "to joke among themselves in unseemly manner or indulge in obscene remarks...