Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
...plank of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune Program for America is: "Restore Constitutional Government to Rhode Island." To Democrats in this tiniest of States the plank is decidedly distasteful. For many years they have unsuccessfully bucked: 1) the Rhode Island constitution; 2) the stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept...
Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...
...next speaker, stout, square-jawed President George Zook of the American Council on Education, the medical men listened respectfully until they realized that he was suggesting that medical schools, like liberal arts colleges, should be allowed to certify that their graduates are fit to be doctors. Due to Abraham Flexner's book and its effect on public opinion, 40 states will not license to practice medicine the graduates of medical schools on the A. M. A.'s blacklist. When heretical Dr. Zook had finished, he was neatly reprimanded by brisk little Biologist Alphonse Mary Schwitalla, S. J., dean...
...glass flowers apparently never caused much concern among the architects of the University Museum. The massive horizontal timbers which support the several floors are not firmly attached to the walls. Instead, each end of the beam rests in an iron sling which is in turn suspended from a stout "bracketlike" bar, anchored in the wall masonry. All of which leaves the beam free to move in its supporting sling...