Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the idea of "anchoring" the corset to the stocking by means of the hose supporter. With little change the corset pinched and pressed its way through the War into the "corsetless era," which was not corsetless at all. It was the age of the girdle. Millions of stout women kept on buying corsets. The slimmer ones took to the girdle. When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came to their rescue by raising the waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments...
...taking her to a Brighton hotel for a weekend. Everything goes according to legal schedule. But unfortunately for John and Mary, their case comes up before the president of the Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division ("Wills, Wives and Wrecks") who has a keen nose for collusion. He dismisses the petition. Stout-hearted John, under advice from his lawyers, goes through the whole business again, making sure that this time there will be plenty of evidence, though he is as guiltless of adultery as before. In spite of his hired co-respondent's coming down with measles at an awkward moment...
Last week Kohler was ablaze with gorgeous hollyhocks and its first serious labor trouble. Upwards of 1,000 pickets, holding their line with a stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
...race is not open to any young man with stout legs, strong lungs and a fondness for an energetic vacation at someone else's expense. Entrants must all have proved their mettle in other major contests. The 1934 field is composed of five national teams-France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain-Switzerland - of eight men each, and 20 independents (les isoles). Since the war Belgians have won the race six times, Frenchmen five times, an Italian twice, a Luxembourger twice...
...Stout-hearted Mme Elzire Dionne, with eleven offspring, holds no record for prolificness. One recorded woman produced 59 children in 27 labors (twins, triplets, quadruplets). Another bore 30 children in 22 years by her first husband, 14 in three years by her second husband (triplets, quintuplets and sextuplets). Noteworthy was Dr. Mary Austin, Civil War nurse, one of whose sisters bore 41 children, another 26. Dr. Austin herself bore 13 twins, 6 triplets-total...