Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...
...more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
...about 100 years ago on the curbstones of Manhattan's financial district. By 1900, the outdoor market had settled down in Broad Street. There, no matter what the weather, traders gathered daily to trade securities in a bedlam of shouting and sharp dealing. Nobody needed a license-only stout lungs, a fur-lined coat...
...recent disaster at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta [TIME, Dec. 16], when fire took the lives of 122 people, will, I sincerely hope, cause a nationwide drive to compel every hotel in the land to place a coil of stout rope in each & every room...
Speeding the Ghost. Most Indians believe in a life after death. But among the Caingang tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance. When a man died, his relatives gathered food and liquor, heaped them around the grave. The neighbors marched round & round, blowing horns, shaking rattles, screaming, and helping themselves from the punchbowl...