Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, for the first time since September 1934, gold was shipped from the U. S. to Europe. Stout little kegs containing $20,600,000 worth of yellow metal were headed up in the Assay Office in Manhattan, delivered to ships bound for France and The Netherlands. A reversal of the movement that has added $2,700,000,000 to U. S. gold stocks since the dollar was devalued two years ago, the shipments were caused by the dollar's recent weakness in international exchange...
...friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious hierarchy of heroes in the persons of himself and his Volunteers, and floggings for the unwilling or rebellious. For the rest, all stout and jolly together, and daring the other nations to come on and be licked...
...your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they have learned how to spin a stout melodramatic yarn. Plot of The Hurricane is truer to Hollywood than to life, but the details of its color and setting are firsthand, first-rate...
Some took shelter in the solidly-built church; some roped themselves in the branches of stout trees; some huddled in boats moored in the comparatively sheltered lagoon. Terangi. his family and the French Administrator's wife were lashed in a tree. When the hurricane had made its first passover everything but one of the boats had been swept away. Because the survivors knew the torrent of wind and water would soon be back, from the opposite direction, they abandoned the boat, clung to a heap of coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous...
...visitors, has no friends who live permanently in Rome, carries on a wide correspondence, writing letters that are as polished as his published works. He admires Proust, reads Jacques Maritain, is interested in Spengler, Freud, Hindu philosophy, occasionally passes days without speaking to anyone except hotel employes. Slightly stout, he wears sedate dark clothes, black ties, might be taken for a prosperous English banker except for his dark complexion and intense black eyes...