Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold on life. But the paths he takes must be peculiarly his own. for psychiatrists have not mapped all the bad lands of the neuroses. Some of the primary facts of what passes for a nervous breakdown, the April issue of FORTUNE, with the help of eminent psychiatrists, ably sets forth for laymen...
Though he still had his stout Republican purpose he saw that Rome was not yet ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond...
There are some who look askance at the consistency with which the views of Hearst, Long, and Coughlin coincide. Stout Republicans and staunch Democrats possess insidious forebodings that such a powerful triumvirate may not be as harmless and as purposeless as it seems, with the 1936 elections looming not so far ahead. It will be remembered that the Hearst Syndicate was solidly behind Honest John Garner and solidly opposed to Roosevelt until the latter's nomination seemed a foregone conclusion in the Democratic convention. It must be realized that the good Father's flock of some millions...
...words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: "A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, worked stoutly as an Algerine slave; with stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...
Three weeks ago the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee began to hunt for crumbs of scandal in the U. S.'s Big Three shipbuilding companies-New York, Newport News and Bethlehem. But no crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...