Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler's favorites among his top fighting men, he can justify all his actions of the past 30 years in terms most Germans can understand and applaud. For a good end he stooped to low means. He shucked dignity, closed his eyes to principles, was alternately sycophant, stout leader, wheedling trimmer and belligerent hell-roarer. The method worked. Few years ago his Navy was "the ugly little stepchild of the Government." Today the stepchild is a favorite, Germans can look on its face and find it shining and full of promise...
...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...
...stout stand of the United Nations' lifeline is reeved through the Great Lakes. If it snarls or frays, so does steel production...
Editor Hibbs's Country Gentleman has been considerably more pro-Administration than the Post. But the disagreement which produced the shake-up doubtless concerned a great deal more than the editorial page, for fiction is still the main stay of the Post's editorial appeal. And Editor Stout, who got his training under the late, great editor, George Lorimer, was generally credited with doing a first-rate...
...Editor Stout, a man of determined convictions, refused to discuss whys & wherefores; but, said he: "There was not one point of disagreement but several. It was a very strong disagreement." He said he was going back to "the work I'm happiest in-a tramp newspaper man." With his wife he will head west by automobile, taking plenty of time to chin with plain folks along the way. For his first self-assignment he chose "the biggest story in America today, the story of the revolution that is taking place in American life...