Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor White once called his stout political friend, Nominee Curtis, a "nit wit." Asked, last week, if he was still of that opinion, Editor White said: "I am. Go ahead. They'll probably prove that I beat my wife...
...Nominee had introduced under pressure as a young legislator, and the republication of that same legislator's entire voting record on legislation touching public morals. The latter "expose" was the work of Willian Allen White, the round-faced, good-humored, politically astute editor of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, stout friend of Nominee Curtis. Earlier in the month Editor White had sketched the Smith record in an editorial and Nominee Smith had answered sketchily. He had accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist (TIME, July 23). Editor White had engaged two investigators...
...decision; not even his double defeat by the House of Commons over his efforts to revise the Book of Common Prayer. He continues one of the brightest intellects in the House of Lords.* But he is 80 and the strain of Church of England polemics have strained his once stout physique. York, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, who succeeds him, is 64. He looks like George Washington; is forthright and voluble in debate. Law was his first study. He was a student in the Inner Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British...
Four years ago, Publisher Hearst entertained another Mayor of New York, his stout friend John F. Hylan. When he got home, Mayor Hylan described the wonders of Hearstland to the peepul of New York, as follows...
Picked for the U. S. Olympic Marathon team-old Clarence DeMar, chesty Joie Ray, young William Agee, stout Jimmy Hennigan, skinny Harvey Frick, blond Albert Michelson...