Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation: his father, who died when his son was 14, had been naturalized, which automatically made his minor children citizens. The naturalization papers were lost in a Joplin fire. Short, stout and smiling, Mayor-elect Shaw wears a brace on his right leg, walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public...
...electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...ponderous, pious machinery of the Roman Catholic Church last week produced a new saint. Andrè-Hubert Fournet (1752-1834) was a stout defender of the faith during the troublesome French Revolution. Ordained priest, he declined in 1791 to swear allegiance to the civil government. In retirement he tried to hold his parish together, sometimes saying masses in caves like the Early Christians. Andrè Fournet was twice exiled to Spain, returned in 1801. In 1806 he founded the Daughters of the Holy Cross, for work among poor girls, with Jeanne Marie Elizabeth Lucie Bichier des Ages, who had also...
...Denver, Colo., Mrs. Mary Benson, middle-aged and stout, squatted in the tub for her bath, got wedged under the faucets, grew weak, could not pull herself out. Four days later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they...
...kindergarteners played lustily on drum, cymbal, triangle and xylophone, while a teacher accompanied on the piano. The primary pupils furnished a 30-piece orchestra. High school students strutted in the costumes of the past 50 years. Parents looked over exhibits of school work. None was happier than the stout, genial. soft-spoken old Quaker for whom the celebration was held-Thomas Watson Sidwell who founded Friends' School, taught there until ten years ago, is still its principal...