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...shall pass over Mr. Cherington's stout assertation of the virility of Critic contributors and ignore his attribution to Advocate authors of the most marked physical characteristics of Pegasus, as hardly being in the good taste which he demands...
...time was presently repaired. But never until the Great Engineer turned loose an economic tempest with which a lesser engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
What made Daniels' words sound like blasphemy to U. S. Catholics was the fact that elsewhere in the Calles speech the onetime President of Mexico as a stout Revolutionary had taken his usual anti-religious position...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...
...disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after their daughter was born. He permitted his wife to leave him for a younger Protestant with whom she fell in love. Busybodies had her arrested for adultery. After her reformatory term she went back to her lover, became a Protestant, has grown stout and religious...