Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under his wing. Most of last year's Farley predictions were based on Hurja calculations. After March 4 Postmaster General Farley took Mr. Hurja to Washington with him, made him his righthand man on patronage. Tall, stout, full-faced, Democrat Hurja quickly became a power among job-seekers. Following Jim Farley's formula ("For Roosevelt Before Chicago") he did most of the picking and choosing. Lately he was put into R. F. C. as personnel officer to weed out Republicans, replant Democrats...
...Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd of the Seven Hills is accompanied throughout with choir-singing and the unctuous voice of Radio Narrator Basil Ruysdael...
...started out in the sombre brick high school building in which John Thomas Scopes once taught Evolution. It has since built dormitories and an administration hall. Bryan admitted students of any religion or sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation and Accepts the Supernatural." Last week Bryan demonstrated it would not falter. Henceforth matriculants will be obliged to pledge themselves as follows...
Whittier's very name sounds to modern ears like the tremulous, piping voice of an aged Victorian. In a stout effort to deepen and dignify Poet Whittier's note Biographer Mordell writes this life of Whittier, the first in almost 30 years. Author Mordell denies that his hero was "a modest, mild and passionless saint," admits that he eventually became a "reactionary and religionist . . . harmless genial poet of the people," but reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite...
Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban...