Word: stoutness
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...developed hundreds of new varieties of flowers, often names outstanding new ones after celebrities. This calls for some careful catalogue descriptions. He likes to tell of the seedsman who named a flower after his mother, described it as "pure white, big and robust, with a wide, expanded form on stout stems...
...earned for Bilko's minor-league record is formidable: in 1956, for example, he batted .360, hit 55 home runs, and knocked in 164 runs for Los Angeles, then in the Pacific Coast League. Such minor-league larruping at one time placed a $200,000 price tag around Stout Steve's bullneck, had won him four major-league tries before this year's with the Tigers. Each time he came up with personal hopes equaled only by those of his bosses; each time, sooner or later, he went back down. The old sad pattern seems about...
...mood. At the country residence of Soviet Ambassador to Paris Sergei Vinogradov, he fed bread crumbs to the swans, even borrowed the scythe of a neighboring farmer and tried his hand at making hay. "Mr. Khrushchev has a fair cutting motion," reported the farmer, "but since he is a stout gentleman, his stomach interfered with his swing...
Tanned and relaxed from a week in Florida and Jamaica, Jack Kennedy buoyantly strode into a rally at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Clarksburg, W. Va. Cheers from 300 Democrats rang out so loudly that the county Democratic chairman, Benjamin Stout, tumbled right off his perch of official neutrality. Carried away by the excitement, he introduced Kennedy as "a man who probably will be the next President...
When she was only two, Joannah Felicity Touchet Clapton, only child of stout English stock, became one of thousands of British children sent to the U.S. to escape the London blitz. In suburban Mendham, N.J., Joannah found a second mother on a pleasant, ns-acre estate. Florence Whitney, the childless wife of a well-to-do broker and an heiress in her own right, found in Joannah a bright, ingratiating girl who soon became her whole life. Joannah's father, an infantry captain, was killed in Normandy, and Joannah's mother remarried, now lives in South Africa...