Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Automobile Workers, determined to break through Henry Ford's old, stout bulwark of antiunionism, still claimed heatedly that 300 men laid off at the River Rouge plant had been fired on account of union activities. Ford maintained that it was a seasonal slump, shooed union officials out of its yard...
...SECOND MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Works by those well-known slicks: Anthony Abbott (Thatcher Colt), Leslie Ford (Colonel Primrose), David Frome (Mr. Pinkerton), Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout (Tecumseh Fox), Philip Wylie. Well worth the extra...
...entered the Presidential race trailing a none-too-savory financial reputation, was covered with calumny. Burlesquing Gerome's painting of the noted Greek courtesan Phryne confounding her Athenian judges by her naked beauty, Puck's talented Gillam showed Republican Blaine standing coyly before his party leaders, his stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin, a dipsomaniac widow by whom Cleveland had had an illegitimate child. Republicans intoned...
...some fiends used rubber bands, which stung). With canes they impartially h'isted the skirts of women, young or old, who entered cabs, climbed steps, or boarded streetcars. For unwary females, the corner of Tremont and Boylston Street became "Hell's Corner." Any girl uninsulated with a stout rubber girdle was likely to be shocked into hysterics...
...gibes of Satirist Montaigne and the objurgations of several French kings and of Cardinal Richelieu, ladies kept trying to cut themselves in two. In the late 18th Century, a lady had to call in both a manservant and a maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds of hospitals' emergency calls were for wasp-waisted women who had fainted in public places...