Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife, Madame Litovtseva, is an actress and producer of the Moscow Art Company. Their son, Vadim, has been in the U. S. this season with Balieff's Chauve Souris. Actor Kochalov speaks no English, eats piles of pirojek* and drinks vodka freely without any sacrifice of his robust, Slavic dignity...
...Because the women of Northern Italy are more robust and the men more intelligent than those of the South, II Duce, for racial reasons, expects them to give a big proportion of the additional babies he asks for his campaign...
...most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness, his fingers were long and slender; his feet, always in glossy shoes, were unusually small...
...opposition or "small navy" group is small in number, robust in spirit. A possible filibuster from this source is conceived to be the only obstacle to the bill's passage...
Died. Cornelius P. ("Con") Shea, 55, famed & robust Chicago labor racketeer, onetime dump cartman, onetime President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; after an operation for gall stones; in Chicago. In 1905 Racketeer Shea led a four months' strike of Chicago teamsters. Twenty-one were killed, 416 injured, 4,620 idle. Cost to the union: $1,050,000. Estimated cost to employers...