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...since he chanced to be in London, Composer Honegger arranged with indulgent Britons to pilot a locomotive for some 20 miles. He returned from the adventure well nigh ecstatic, plunged at once into a symphonic composition which will take romantic music-lovers out of themselves and into a robust locomotive...
...mark against his fair name. He stands forth as a rugged, typical American. We all on our side and on both sides wish him well. He presides over an American home. About his hearthstone is gathered rugged graceful refined, intellectual womanhood and innocent and guileless childhood, lofty integrity and robust manhood." The entire House rose in prolonged and mighty applause...
...Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods eccentricity and hospitality. Floods, prairies, a great pine swamp, the canebrakes of the Ohio, midwinter moose "yards" in Canada, squatters on the Mississippi, the death of a pirate on the Gulf of Mexico- these and scores of other matters the robust wanderer found time and energy to write down, usually by candle or pineknot light after a long day's tramp...
Miss Watkins, having gleaned craftsmanship wisdom from George Pierce Baker's drama school at Yale, wrote the robust satire, Chicago (TIME, Jan. 10). More recently, Miss Watkins has been writing of the doings of the Brownings for the New York World...
...Denver harbors more than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...