Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the President: "Every stout heart that has advanced the frontiers of human knowledge by exploration has been accompanied . . . by destiny as an unseen fellow wayfarer...
...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...served in the War, Navy and National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...
Preparedness, but not military preparedness, was the keynote struck by N. E. A.'s president, stout Amy Henrietta Hinrichs of New Orleans, before the 11,000 delegates: "Universal education is ... the first line of defense in our national life." Other orators...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...