Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, a circus baboon wandered into Mrs. Dorothy Plummer's house, helped herself to oranges and bananas, strayed upstairs into the bathroom where she dabbed on a bit of powder, stopped off for a bounce on the bed, finally was discovered by police downstairs, drinking a bottle of stout...
...flurry; she flits. I am sturdy; you are stout; he is a slob...
...story was going around London last week: two Russians were discussing World War III. Said Ivan: "By 1952 we'll have the bomb and the first thing to do will be to knock out Britain. Five bombs in five stout suitcases should do the trick-one for Liverpool, one for Manchester, one for Birmingham, and two for London...
Chess & Cape. Still slender and erect, Gide has a leathery brown skin, sharp eyes and decisive gestures. His rambling Left-Bank apartment is shared with stout, 82-year-old writer Maria Van Rysselberghe, her daughter and son-in-law, Newspaperman Pierre Herbart. Gide's daughter, Catherine, now in her 20s, lives near Paris with her husband and two children...
...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...