Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made Daniels' words sound like blasphemy to U. S. Catholics was the fact that elsewhere in the Calles speech the onetime President of Mexico as a stout Revolutionary had taken his usual anti-religious position...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...
...disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after their daughter was born. He permitted his wife to leave him for a younger Protestant with whom she fell in love. Busybodies had her arrested for adultery. After her reformatory term she went back to her lover, became a Protestant, has grown stout and religious...
...Lygon had to leave her husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield, build up again their charred and blood-soaked houses...
...toward a higher standard of living. ... I affirm the duty of industrial leaders to hasten this development, so pregnant with good for all mankind. . . . The good life lies ahead somewhere along the road of abundance, and we shall find it by continuing in that direction with stout hearts and open minds...