Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm wives blanched at the rumor. For years, the stout, fast-color flour sack, paisley, checked, flowered or striped, had been as important as its contents. Mothers had turned the sacks into housedresses, children's playsuits, shorts, curtains, bedspreads and towels. Cried one Red Oak, Ga., wife: "We can live on crackers and cornbread if we have to. But we can't send our children to school naked...
Young, Campbell. Benero, Stout, Becker, Brower, Cashin...
Penalties--Cannon (cross-check), Ayres (tripping), Stout (cross-check), Campbell (handling the puck), Ayres tripping...
...Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section of that ukase: Orthodox Churchmen in North and South America must "abstain from all political activity against the U.S.S.R...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...