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...meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...together in Box 20. Delegates cheered but few noticed when a stout, jut-jawed man in a brown suit also entered and sat down inconspicuously...
...Ivanhoe. Many a little U. S. girl has felt sorry that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...
Fortnight ago Dr. Beebe lowered his bathysphere empty to 3,000 ft. at the end of a stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...
...junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph, all the railroads and last year all the shipping, of Italy. It was Count Ciano who arranged the mergers of Italy's greatest shipping lines, thereby saving from ruin not only the lines but also the big hanks which were heavily tied...