Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow evening the corps will be entertained at the Phillips Brooks House at dinner at 7 o'clock. The speakers for the evening will be A. E. French '29, Winslow Carlton '29, and R. A. Stout '29, who will outline undergraduate life in the University for the benefit of the guests. Thursday, scattered groups of students will visit the objects of interest in the University as well as the more historical spots of Cambridge...
...political wisdom of the new policy is obvious. It robs the anti-Mellon group in the Senate of their most tangible excuse for attacks on Mr. Mellon, of which the real motives have been partisanship and personal bitterness. Michigan's Senator Couzens, a stout Republican, yet long Mr.Mellon's bitterest antagonist, admitted the order was "an advance" and twitted the Secretary on his changed position...
Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...
...lean years in fashions are no lean years for Lane Bryant, Inc., No. 1 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, outfitters of the ample. For it is the specialty of the Lane Bryant stores so to drape the stout figure that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize" woman has come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish...
...holding company for the Newman & Benton chain of eleven cloak and suit establishments; have also bought the Spies Store, Newark, and plan soon to open stores in Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. It is intended that the Bryant chain shall eventually include no less than 100 service stations for the stout. The present Bryant system does an annual business of about $15,000,000, some 40% by mail...