Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this type of nonsense a serviceable cast is essential, and with a single exception the players were skillfully selected. The exception was Wallis Clark who worried the role of the elder Castlebury much as a stout puppy worries an enormous bone...
...British, faced by stout Franco-Belgian opposition, are in a quandary. The entire position as far as Britain is concerned is summed up by Lord Curzon, who said he did not know what the Government would do next week or next month. It is generally believed, however, that Britain will make a separate reply to the last German offer (June 7) and that this action will receive the official support of Italy and Japan, and it is reported in some quarters the unofficial support of the U. S. Government. This, however, lacks confirmation...
...Sparkling comedienne of the silver sheet," Constance Talmadge has turned "cartoonist," according to the announcement of her press agent. She is "collaborating" with Lauren Stout, cartoonist. "That is," continued her press agent, "Constance develops the. ideas and lines, then gives them to Mr. Stout, who, in turn, transfers them to paper." Miss Talmadge's first venture as an artist-a pen-and-ink artist-will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell. They are syndicated by the Key-City Feature Service and will appear in the Evansville (Ind.) Courier, the Rockwell (Okla.) Tribune, the Boston Post...
...steamship official: "We have been asked to purchase single bottles of liquors, of which we never heard. To arrange for the supply of cocktails requested would entail the stocking of a vast quantity of alcoholic materials we should never get rid of. One woman has ordered five bottles of stout, and another half a bottle of gin. On the other hand, a well-known millionaire, who is the leader of a considerable party, has ordered ten cases of magnums of champagne. But the great demand is for whisky. Scotch and Irish, in that order of preference...
...Yankee Stadium May 12. Journalists who witnessed his first work-out are at variance as to his condition and ability. Say some: "He has reduced to 241 pounds." Say others: "But he cannot reduce his 38 years by training !" In any event, Willard is no longer the stout, benignly middle-aged gentleman whom Jack Dempsey obliterated in three rounds at Toledo...