Word: stoutness
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...magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot to keep him from crashing...
...doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled...
...Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, 69, testy expert on the U.S. Constitution. A stout man with a bristling mustache, Vermonter Powell was a pitiless and unpredictable examination marker. Known among legal scholars as the "dean of constitutional law," he was once asked whether he would take a Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution. "Certainly," replied Powell. "It has been supporting me for the last 25 years...
Good Guinness. Because currency restrictions make U.S. hops hard to get, Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd., famed Irish brewers ("Guinness is good for you"), bought a Long Island City plant, their first in the U.S. In it, Guinness, which has been importing U.S. hops, started brewing stout of "the same flavor and quality as brewed in Ireland" for the U.S. market...
Melone, Thomas Paterson of 116 North Central Street, Clayton: John Burroughs School. Clayton Stout, George Hubert of 5153 Westminster Place, St. Louis; St. Louis Country Day School...