Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little of the ideal poet. He is old and stout, very scrubbily dressed, his teeth vanish down his throat when he giggles, which is very often, and then, by a most interesting tour de force, he reinstates them; and his method of eating is more startling than elegant, but it all amuses one, and he is kindly and full...
...tugboat tootings in the harbor, two score small fry and a few big stockholders gathered at No. 17 Battery Place last week to approve or vote down the merger of Tide Water Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co. into a new Tide Water Associated Oil Co. William Francis Humphrey, stout, double-chinned president of Tide Water Associated who is also head of San Francisco's famed Olympic-Club, called the meeting to order, clipped through parliamentary procedure in approved police court fashion...
That Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancèe through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie...
...Fusion Mayor LaGuardia and civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled its efforts particularly against a second proposition on the voting machines, providing that members of the new City Council should be elected by proportional representation. Even "bigger-than-Tammany" Al Smith, stout proponent of Charter reform, sided with his fellows against proportional representation, an issue on which Tammany felt it was fighting for its life...
...silk-breeched Colonial Virginians who legislate an act appropriating the Kentucky land which the great Boone appropriated from the Indians. With 40 families at his buck skin back, Boone treks over the Cumberlands, founds the village of Boonesborough. The land is as fertile as the Red skins are hostile. Stout Boone protects the settlers in many a brush with Indians, kills more than one warrior, narrowly misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This is the best sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine...