Word: stoutness
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...Irish have always cultivated the art of living, and they still have time and space for the slow perusal of race horses, the thoughtful consumption of stout, and weighty disputation in rich, foamy periods that make English English seem like verbal porridge. Ireland's traditional shanachies, its Gaelic storytellers, still spin their grave tales in the western counties, and of late have also favored Radio Eireann with their...
...never finished worse than third. The conditions of the Preakness are more favorable to Never Bend than the Derby, in which he ran second. Never Bend is a front-runner and the Preakness is a shade shorter than the Derby. Further more, No Robbery, the horse whose stout pressure helped tire Never Bend after he had run the first six furlongs of the Derby in a blistering 1:10, is out of the Preakness with an injury...
...songs, called "catches," depend for their spice on stout voices singing the lyrics alternately. As the lyrics interweave, words overlap and innocent verses yield bright fruit: a catch that begins "He tickled her fancy and told her his tale" is sure to come out "And he fancy-tickled her tail." Jonathan Swift was an eager catch lyricist, but the biggest tease of all was Henry Purcell, the saintly master of the High Church hymn. After hours, Purcell forsook cantatas in favor of catches and "hockets"-a trick of song in which a voice may boldly interject one word...
...home of pulp fiction and an unrivalled assortment of detective novels which came from the library of an egyptologist named George A. Reisner '89. Reisner died during the war and left the University crates of material, crates that held no hieroglyphs. Instead, his bounty was the arcana of Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett and the rest, all conveniently graded by the good professor. The Clue of the Bricklayer's Aunt got a B, but David Hume's Goodbye to Life received a straight A on the inside cover...
Kinasewich is one of more than 100 Canadian players now enrolled in American colleges whose records were examined by the ECAC eligibility committee. Members of the committee include Harry Arlanson of Tufts and Vic Stout of Boston University, the Boston Traveler reported...