Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable...
...courtesy runner. Frank surveyed the occupants of the Andover dugout in an attempt to decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
...certain young tutor, it is reported, was touring England with some confreres. With these colleagues he lunched at Dr. Johnson's tavern. There they partook liberally of stout, and after their imbitions, they proceeded to that ancient church, St. Clement's Dane. Before the high altar they prayed for Abbott Lawrence Lowell and for Harvard. The prayers of the unrighteous avail...
...Hell-to-Pay." But he was seldom vitriolic. His reviews were famed chiefly for their length (1,250 words, at least), their ornate, old-fashioned sentences, their freshness and independence of viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office, painstakingly correcting proof, sorting and editing the world's stage news. No one ever dared to call...
...settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...