Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stout Irene Schoellkopf-Carman, fiftyish, wealthy onetime wife of the late Frank Barrett Carman and of Buffalo's millionaire C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, was sued for $100,000 by one Courtland Erwin Conkwright, 27, handsome life guard at Long Beach, L. I. He claimed she lured him from his job to be her "secretary" at $5,000 a week, bought him a $600 wardrobe, a $3,000 car. Soon her interest waned, her Long Island home was closed to him. He asked 20 weeks...
...soprano roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas are most effective when sung by small, arch, comely ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
...Thayer 54: J. D. Gordon, Jr. '30; Weld 5: J. H. Pratt; Weld 35; L. H. Butterfield '30; Wigglesworth A 22; F. W. Hoeing; Wigglesworth D 21: W. M. Marvel; Wigglesworth E 12: R. G. Luckey '31; Wigglesworth I 22: R. I. W. Westgate; Wigglesworth K 22: R. A. Stout '29; Fairfax 307: E. M. Rowe '27; Walter Hastings 52; Donald Hiss...
Those who are unused to the ways of tools are awkward in their handling. The physical plant of a college constitutes its tools and time and instruction obviate awkwardness in the employment of the implements of learning. A willing enough mind and a stout heart are the fundamental prerequisites of apprentices in the business of making Harvard...
...second reading: 310 to 253. Next, it was expected, would come discussion of a tariff. Reported leader of the movement was Liberal Sir John Simon, who had been wavering for many a month. Should a tariff eventuate, first to resign his job would be little Philip Snowden, stout free-trader...