Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty million years ago-the dawn of their Age-Titanoides was the biggest of mammals, about the size of a polar bear. Stout, thick-legged, big-tailed, weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible...
...Stout Curzon friends deny that he ever said any such thing but legend is a sturdy oak. Legend also says that in this room Sir Edward Grey worked all one night in 1914 and then at dawn, stepping to the window as London's street lights were being extinguished, cut this gem: "Lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lighted again in our time...
...Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had not yet made them...
...Kansas City last week the National Labor Relations Act, passed last summer to make employers bargain collectively with a majority of their employes, met its first constitutional test, went down to dusty defeat. Three Stouts, Charles, Warda and Alice, who own the Majestic Flour Mills at Aurora, Mo., appealed to U. S. District Judge Merrill E. Otis for an injunction against a Labor Relations complaint. A majority of the Stout employes had organized a union, and demanded higher wages. This demand was granted. Then the unionized majority demanded that only union members be employed, that no union member be discharged...
...professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene in Bronx. Robert Cantwell makes...