Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very Welsh rebuttal, up popped David Lloyd George. "Any fish can keep a cool head!" sneered the Wartime Prime Minister at Neville Chamberlain. "The Prime Minister says we must have cool heads. Yes, but I say we must also have stout hearts! Our great failure in the last four or five years has been that our hearts have failed us. The dictators of Europe are very clever men, daring men, astute men. They are taking, at the present moment, a rather low view of the intelligence and courage of ourselves. I wish to God I could...
...George Horace Lorimer retired from S.E.P.'s editorship in 1936. Present editor: Wesley Winans Stout...
...passage of time is as apparent as in the cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine...
...Pawtucket denizens have heckled the Journal so insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners own no stock in the track. Certain it is that Bulletins...
...itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator in the Zion Administration Building. However, Zionites like their show immensely, cluck appreciatively in the Sermon on the Mount scene when the Christus holds on his lap a babe whom everyone recognizes as his one-year-old son John...