Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noggins, a stout, pawky woman, came out to Canada before the first World War and settled near Saanichton, on Vancouver Island. She has an uncle in Liverpool, a cousin in Seattle, but her best friend is whimsical Columnist-Editor Bruce Hutchison, who lives near Saanichton too, and who helps run the Winnipeg Free Press by remote control...
...Drink, No Smoke. Branch Rickey, the smartest man in baseball, had looked hard and waited long to find a Negro who would be his race's best foot forward, as well as a stout prop for a winning ball team. Rickey and his men scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record...
...dressing room just big enough to hold her, a short, stout and bespectacled Negro woman stepped onto the two-by-four stage. The prim expression on her flat face was that of a Sunday school teacher lost in a gin mill and primed to bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar...
...deputy and a kind of general manager of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth has Staff Captain G. N. Jones, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. Captain Jones has a square-rigged jaw and a thatch of white hair over deep-set eyes. He looks (and is) the embodiment of that stout British character which a gloomy statesman in the House of Commons corridor recently said was Britain's one hope. As Captain Illingworth's deputy, he runs the crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously did not know...
...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...