Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keeping his mouth shut was hard. People called him appeaser, demanded his resignation. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had approved his policy, but silently had to let stout-hearted Cordell Hull struggle alone with the misunderstandings...
Died. Edmund Somerville Tattersall, 79, world-famed auctioneer of race horses; in London. Stout, white-haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...
...first four shooting matches left the air full of fragmented lies and cheers from the audience. The New York Times's sensitive Radiocritic John Hutchens called it the best of the summer shows. More than 2,000 listeners wrote in about it. Sample: "Rex Stout, you're the nuts...
...supplying Stout with propaganda pigeons falls to Jack Gerber, director of the CBS short-wave listening station. Said Gerber last week: "We wondered if they'd tell enough lies in a week to keep the program interesting. They sure do. We hear twice as many...