Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy, on its 119,242 sq. mi. of mountainous country, supports a population of 39,989,385 souls. The support is poor. Half of the people work on farms. Most of the others work in factories. The factory workers, although quick, industrious and intelligent, are not robust. They can do only light work...
...Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
...most lavish production. She has exploited her vast knowledge of the English vocabulary to a staggering degree. In so doing the length of verse is often subjected to the cause of an extra-size word or two, thus throwing the reader completely out of step. Her lines are vigorous, robust, even Englishly athletic...
...best communication with the past. The Ben Jonson we have here is a lovable, disgusting, Falstaffian figure who drinks, slops, fights, sweats, writes lovely lyrics. One hundred and fifty-eight well-printed pages suffice to give his life in its entirety. If the style is not so robust as Jonson, the conception is brutal enough. Jonson is rare, rare as a century plant; rare also as a beefsteak. Author Steele, aged 20, lately studied under Professor John Erskine,* of Columbia University. Lectures by Professor Erskine inspired the writing of the Jonson book, the author says...
...were playing in "Sunny", Marilyn Miller and I, you know; we played all through the summer of 1925; hot as it was too, rather warm get me? Well one night there was a woman up in the balcony sitting right under the spot fat she was too, rather robust...