Word: stoutly
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Eliot: lf, England; rf, Palmer; c, Critchton; rg, Stout; lg, Farmer. Kirkland: lf, Bessman; rf, Viegas; c, Carlin; rg, Edison; lg, Glynn...
...Bryant married a dynamic Lithuanian engineer, Albert Malsin. Soon she settled down to trying out her own creations while Malsin ran the business. He started retailing maternity wear by mail, added "stylish stouts," based "on the laws of optics, psychology and color." Making clothes for stout women, said Malsin, was not just making outsized versions of the "perfect 36." It was like camouflaging ships, the object being "to deceive the eye . . . as to the ship's size, its course and its speed...
Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...
...more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
...about 100 years ago on the curbstones of Manhattan's financial district. By 1900, the outdoor market had settled down in Broad Street. There, no matter what the weather, traders gathered daily to trade securities in a bedlam of shouting and sharp dealing. Nobody needed a license-only stout lungs, a fur-lined coat...