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...biography "Stout Cortez" Henry Morton Robinson has produced an uncritical, unscholarly book which, however, should not lose interest and fascination on that account among popular readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well...
Adding to Capone's difficulties last week was a deportation order signed by Secretary of Labor Doak for Antonio ("Mops") Volpe. stout Capone henchman, convicted ten years ago of forging War Saving Stamps. "What's the matter with Volpe?" complained the badgered Capone. "He's raised seven kids and that's the best recommendation I know...
...Lowell is deep in many things. He is enthusiastically deep in campanology (bell lore). He finds few books more fascinating than De Tintinnabulis by 16th Century Bell-Master Hieronymus Magius. All last week Dr. Lowell's stout old heart was palpitant with the excitement of getting those Russian bells hung just right. There was trouble...
Such is life in Merrie England, but can you picture the star halfback rushing up to the bar and exclaiming. "A pint of stout, my man, and make it fast; I must go out and die for dear old Rutgers"? The Stanford Daily...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has been doing it for years, but it is still good. You may think you are completely hardened to this kind of bubbling dialog, practically immune to any further farcical Wodehouse situations; but yours is indeed a stout pair of lips if they do not relax often, part sometimes in a delighted yell as you read this latest Wodehouse issue...