Word: stouts
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...Stout, amiable Joseph Pholien, a lawyer who helped found Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...
...making beer one day he burned the barley and accidentally turned out a dark, bitter brew that everyone liked. Whoever discovered it, the brew came to be known as porter because of its popularity among laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when ordering Guinness stout. At Dublin's Dolphin Hotel, the "quality" mix their Guinness with champagne in a "black velvet" (which was also Bismarck's favorite drink...
...diary: "When I [could] take some nourishment, I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness." Doctors wrote in to say that they found Guinness good for everything from "insomnia, neurasthenia, debility and constipation" to an "effective aid for nursing mothers." Guinness tried to get stout admitted into the U.S. during Prohibition as a medicine, but the Treasury Department coldly said...
There was always a cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...