Word: stoutness
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When George Boston went down to the sea this spring, he had a stout ship under him and a restless, lifelong dream to steer her by: he wanted to sail around the world by himself. Driven by his dream, Boston had built his ship, a 30-ft. auxiliary ketch, with his own hands on the lawn of his home in Swampscott, Mass. Two years ago, he coaxed the Fiddler's Green as far as Port Said before an attack of jaundice sent him home by freighter, his ship lashed ignobly on deck...
...Stout, smiling Father Sépinski, 56, who grew up in the smoky French mining town of Audun-le-tiche on the Luxembourg border, holds doctorates in theology and canon law, seems constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill...
...Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn Lloyd as "Mr. Celluloid." Last week, in implicit answer to all criticisms, Macmillan publicly described Lloyd as "a loyal and sagacious colleague" with "a stout heart and a cool head," but carefully refrained from committing himself to keeping Lloyd in the Cabinet for any specified length of time. "In politics, as in rowing a boat," noted the London Economist, "it is sometimes easier to move swiftly in one direction if one's eyes...
...last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their...
Bite the Dusk. Daniel Laverock is a stout-bodied chap in his 20s, of good family and a surpassing ugliness. When he finds himself jobless in the Depression '30s, he gets a job as manager of the Pantheon, a wretched Fowlers End movie-vaudeville house owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites...