Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were insisting on pari passu treatment with the U. S. in the matter of War debt payments, and if France and Italy had not defied Britain's contention that they should not make separate settlements with the U. S. Lieut.-Col. Walker Guinness (son of the stout and beer manufacturer, Lord Iveagh), Financial Secretary of the Treasury, replied: "The gallant gentleman is under a misapprehension...
British Open. A snowy ball hung in the air over the second green of the Prestwick golf links, Scotland. From the sea close by, blew what a Scotsman would call "a bit breeze," an American a "stout wind." Truly hit, the ball never wavered. It dropped on the dry, fast turf, leaped toward the hole, disappeared from the view of the thousands of spectators that jostled in the rough and back of the bunkers. Picking his way from the tee, his mashie still in his hand, J. H. Taylor, five times (1894, '95, 1900, '09, '13) British Open Champion, came...
...Standard Oil Co. ordered, and the Stout Metal Airplane Co. of Michigan promised delivery on Aug. 10 of a "flying house...
...Religion in Cambridge" receives due attention. Under the guise of inviting us to Satanism and its forbidden fruits, the writer gets in some stout work in behalf of the Anglo-Catholic position in matters ecclesiastical, and conveys certain, prosy information as to the local status of that denomination, which might adorn any church year book. Appleton Chapel is dismissed as a "sad memorial, to the dry bones of New England Liberalism." So be it. I preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element...
Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, are shareholders and prominent backers of the Stout Metal Airplane Corporation, constructing not "flivvers" but large, all-metal passenger planes of the most modern and refined design. Powered with a Liberty motor, the Stout plane can carry eight passengers within its roomy cabin and fly over 100 miles an hour for long stretches. According to a Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting...