Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was his end: the pious Jew apostate preaching salvation in Israel. They stoned him at street corners, kicked his body and head. Dovvid Pollock saw his handiwork and hung himself on a stout hook...
...other items in the original article which Mr. Moore objected to included: 1) That Mrs. Jackson in her later years was a "stout little body ... a fat, coarse little brown-skinned woman in dowdy clothes." Mr. Moore contended that she was good looking, well mannered throughout her life...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
Recognizing, like the Metropolitan Museum of Manhattan, the compact, grainy beauty of the homes of colonial merchants, militiamen, farmers, Indian fighters, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently began an American Wing. It has removed ten rooms from ten stout New England Houses, among them...