Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joughin, Chairman, Miss Beatrice White; A. H. Bryan, Miss Virginia Reed; E. W. Gross, Miss Natalie Stout...
...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...
Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...
Despite the stout resistance of grammarians and scholars, the vulgarisms of popular speech are finally gaining their deserved recognition. Such at least is the opinion set forth in an editorial in "Liberty" which takes up the cause of natural expressions such as "He don't" and "It's me" as opposed to the stilted "He doesn't" and "It's I." "Ain't," the writer admits with a sigh, is gradually losing ground in its fight to supplant the awkward "am not" or "aren...
...Peoria, Ill., High School Seniors Al Landers and Frank Polkington bent over, let themselves be hit with a stout paddle at 5¢ per hit. They collected $4 (80 blows); gave the $4 to the flood relief fund; sat gingerly...