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Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...very Welsh rebuttal, up popped David Lloyd George. "Any fish can keep a cool head!" sneered the Wartime Prime Minister at Neville Chamberlain. "The Prime Minister says we must have cool heads. Yes, but I say we must also have stout hearts! Our great failure in the last four or five years has been that our hearts have failed us. The dictators of Europe are very clever men, daring men, astute men. They are taking, at the present moment, a rather low view of the intelligence and courage of ourselves. I wish to God I could...
...speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure on that peninsula a Fascist triumph which the stout-hearted Britons of 1914 would have resisted to the utmost...
...George Horace Lorimer retired from S.E.P.'s editorship in 1936. Present editor: Wesley Winans Stout...
...passage of time is as apparent as in the cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine...