Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount Halifax resigned his post largely because in its official publication the Church Union had made what he called a "vicious attack" on the Anglo-Catholic Congress...
...what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair grounds a dummy marked HENRY WALLACE was soundly spanked by three stout rustics with barrel staves...
...magnification is an old Spanish custom or perhaps resides in the nature of the country. California was an old land long before the Americans came, its early history already misty with crepuscular legend. The Journey of the Flame, a book of vigorous old man's talk, full of stout-hearted miracles and boasting, is like a suddenly-discovered window into that earlier age. Not only Californians but anyone wise or lucky enough to read it will delight in this altogether dignified but occasionally joyously incredible narrative...
...cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the red house on Sparks...
Some of the tales that will strike a Western eye: the Bunyanesque vicissitudes of the stout-hearted Ling Ch'ung; the Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...