Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, J. Robert Stout, 55, president of the International Benjamin Franklin Society, founder of Educational Thrift Service and onetime president of the New York Rotary Club, asked a dozen assorted bankers, psychologists, admen and businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
...average seems to be somewhere around 70," said Questioner Stout. ''I personally must confess that I got a terrible minus score, but since applying myself diligently I have succeeded in showing an improvement of 4.06% over the first time...
...soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when one day her husband disappears, stays away so long that she knows he is gone for good. But she puts a bold face on it, makes up a stout story that drives her to many a deceitful trick. By working even harder she manages to keep the family fed. When her man has been gone too long she lets herself be seduced by the landlord's agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion...
...When this apparent discourtesy to his ecclesiastical superiors became known in the archdioceses of Chicago and Philadelphia it was reported that in the future Father Coughlin would be denied permission to speak in either place. Nor would he be welcome in Boston, whose stout-hearted William Henry Cardinal O'Connell flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk" last year...
...memoirs, now emerges from his study brandishing the first two volumes of a life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look forward to the volumes still to come...