Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stout, short and tall- O those beautiful, beautiful girls...
...containing an old gentleman drew up beside a traffic policeman. The occupant asked the way to Perth Amboy, and received polite directions. "How many children have you?" asked the old man. "Three, sir," replied the officer. The old man stretched out a hand and dropped five dimes into the stout fist of the patrolman. Said...
...wind for civic holidays, feasts of the church and times of national disaster. Magazine editors, moved by a similar but perhaps sincerer humility, often preserve the newspaper tradition of anonymity. But when a man achieves great eminence he shatters these conventions even as a growing lad might burst by stout activity the short breeches that fitted him so well a year before. So it is with Glenn Frank, onetime editor of the Century, newly chosen president of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, May 25). Last week in the Editor and Publisher, the name GLENN FRANK was spread across two pages...
...Stout, short and tall?
...Middlesex Hospital's official blood-supply man. Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...