Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again...
Some 1,200 years ago lived a stout Bishop of Liege named Hubert. A mighty hunter was he, whose horn would sound right valiantly through the Forest of Ardennes. After his death Hubert was sainted; he had traditionally been converted on a Good Friday when, hunting, he saw a miraculous stag with a shining crucifix between its antlers. A patron of hunters, St. Hubert may be invoked in cases of hydrophobia...
...proposed beer bill soon to be brought up in the Senate has several unsatisfactory features, but never-the-less it is important as a revenue producing measure. This bill, written by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, provides for the sale and manufacture of "beer, ale, porter, bock, stout, lager, or a name similar thereto." With the above-named beverages taken out of the prohibition amendment, no other federal legislation would be necessary, since there is an existing tax of six dollars a barrel on beer on one hand, and the Webb-Kenyen act protecting-dry states on the other...
...years, the Freshman Debating Council is formulating plans for an active season of forensic and social activities, which will begin with a dinner for the 35 members of the Council in the upper common room of the Freshman Union next Tuesday evening, it was stated last night by R.A. Stout '29, Secretary of the Union...
...painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee of the Royal Academy. One of the best known portraits in the world, it last week arrived in the U. S. for the first time in 50 years, was exhibited behind a stout iron railing in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Irascible Jimmy Whistler, who signed his pictures with a butterfly and fought with all his friends, painted his mother's picture on the back of a canvas on which he had started the head of a young girl...