Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...
Benito Mussolini has often been suspected of having a suppressed desire to sneak up behind the League of Nations when it wasn't looking and hit it on the back of the head with a stout club. If this has been the plan of the Italian dictator, Emperor Haile Selassie's telegram to Geneva is a good indication that he will not have to wait much longer for the desired nervous breakdown. No matter what answer the League makes to the walling message from Ethiopia, it is certain to pay the price of one of the major blunders...
...first encounter, Lincoln held Pennsylvania to eight well-scattered hits and was backed by perfect support, while Penn's downfall was due in part to four errors. However, because of Pennsylvania's strong showing against Dartmouth, the league leader, and Yale, the Crimson expects stout opposition...
...designer named S. Valdner built a model of a two-car streamlined train to run on an overhead single-rail track. The cars are carried on each side of a stout frame which holds the rail at its centre. Designer Valdner affirmed that two big propellers, each powered by a 530-h.p. Diesel engine, would drive his contraption 185 m.p.h...
Harvest, her 21st translated book, is little more than a literary scrap-book- Swedish and Biblical legends, reminiscences, travel sketches, reprinted speeches. And the book is not an anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy...