Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodacious, New-Deal-loathing Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y. publisher, and chairman of his own National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. While Mr. Gannett was away (on a Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...
...Life of Greece, therefore, Will Durant bears the burden of proof. His subject is one which fed and instructed the best minds of several robust centuries (16th, 17th, 18th) and stimulated the liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh...
Miss Smith boasts petite, rather than the usual robust, features, saying she is 5 feet 4 inches tall and only 112 pounds. Atop her sleek frame rests a golden blond head. Miss Coleman, who is a Sophomore at St. Mary's, failed to list measurements...
Even Cincinnati's dog-collared dowagers -to whom Reds usually meant Bolsheviks, flies pests and bunting something one wrapped a baby in-could reel off the minutest details of the Reds' harrowing experiences the past month: a robust team with a fielding average of .975 (best in the league) and a batting average of .273 (third best), they were leading the National League by twelve games on August i and looked like a cinch to win the pennant; but last week, mind you, they were struggling to defend a precarious 2½-game lead against the Cardinals...
...find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning, the thoughtfulness and lyric poetry of Landor, the observant accuracy of Crabbe...