Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band had been stationed backstage to entertain the galleries while the delegates were arriving. Conditioned to The Star-Spangled Banner, hundreds rose when the first bars sounded. It was a false alarm. For reasons unknown, the band successively played Lover, Come Back to Me; Stout-Hear ted Men; Wanting You. When the band got to The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, the galleries were giggling...
...went out to the little courtyard where the gallows stood, a stout wooden frame with several hooks and a stool on which men stood before an SS kick deprived them of their last grip on life...
...best-loved of all modern musicals-Show Boat and Oklahoma! But he has also written the libretto or lyrics (or both) for such hits as Rose Marie, The Desert Song, The New Moon, Carmen Jones; his are the words of 01' Man River, Lover Come Back to Me, Stout-Hearted, Men, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and-the only song he ever wrote for himself and not for a show-The Last Time I Saw Paris...
...Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera. "The word opera," says Oscar II, "was a nightmare to everyone in the family." Unlike his other grandfather (who used to take little Oscar on rambles and give him whiskey punch before breakfast and Guinness' Stout after supper) ripsnorting old Oscar I never paid the slightest attention to his namesake...
...Archbishop named an old Navy man, tubby Admiral Petros Voulgaris, Commander in Chief of the Greek Fleet, as the new Premier. In World War I, the Admiral was a stout supporter of the Allies, a follower of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos. In World War II he made his mark by breaking last year's leftist mutiny aboard Greek warships in Alexandria harbor. Then, as now, he had British forces behind him to help keep Greek from fighting Greek...