Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stout, bald, genial Newshawk Lewis is known throughout Berkshire Country. He keeps no working hours, wants no diversion other than traveling about, gathering homely little items for his paper, chatting about his favorite oldtime news stories. Unmarried, Reporter Lewis lives alone in a lodging house. That, says he, is how he amassed $20,000: "I'm thrifty, and you can live in Lenox for $4 a week...
Walter's double-barreled feat was not new. Conductors sat at harpsichords before they ever thought of standing up in front of their orchestras, waving the first stout batons. In just such a fashion big, bewigged Handel made music for the Londoners of King George I. In the U. S. Karl Muck and Willem Mengelberg have conducted from keyboards...
...pretty little Russian woman became that warrior, sounded his battle cry heroically. Next minute you could have believed her to be a whole band of Cossacks restlessly awaiting the approaching Tartars. Then she prayed, as a Siberian tribe long-vanished prayed to Kalaidos, its God. These were the stout, earthy beginnings of Nina Tarasova's first U. S. recital in five years...
...Vagabond well remembers his first uplifting introduction to old Horatio. It was "Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk...
...kissing a white girl. As if the big lynching scene were insufficient drama for one evening. Playwright Theodore St. John sends his rural mobsters back to Adams' place a second time. They now want to settle with the city fellow for making up to Adams' wife. But stout Farmer Adams gets out his gun, settles his own particular triangle in his own particular way. Constructed and executed with sympathy and clarity, Adams' Wife is a play for you to see if you are interested in serious drama of the U. S. rural scene. Experience Unnecessary...