Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michipicoten, an Ontario village so small that every neighbor could testify to the event, I. Quick's house cat broke its leg last week. Mr. Quick put the cat and a stone into a stout bag, and with some neighbors walked over to the river, into which he heaved the loaded bag. It floated down the river, over the falls, into the rapids 123 feet below. The party strolled back to Mr. Quick's home. On the front porch squatted the cat, licking its broken...
...difficulties of retrieving the coat are not so ingenuously preposterous as those imagined by originators of the old-time farces. Director Clair, perceiving opportunities for satire, has made the opera singer a stout, pretentious clown, the thief & friends ridiculous prototypes of U. S. gangsters, the hero's creditors a crew of rascally lickspittles. He pokes fun at the opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased...
...William Morris. Sir William's factory whence issues the Morris Cowley car has put Oxford town on England's industrial map.* Gentle, unimpressive, he is chairman of a potent body of British tycoons, the National Council of Industry, which he formed last year on a stout protectionist platform to save the Empire from the "muddlers" and "the old gang." His newest automobile, larger than many another "baby" model, will sell for $500-so far Britain's cheapest...
...while Harry Acton, shipnews reporter for the New York American, fills his column with sundry information under the title DID YOU KNOW? Last week he asked if his readers knew: "That the pure-blooded dogs brought out by the French colonials to French Indo-China are often garbed in stout canvas pants to assure their offspring against mixture with the local mongrel breed...
...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...