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...interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios...
...impossible, however, to maintain such equanimity in face of the attack on the Military Science Department. As a matter of fact, the pacifists should be thankful for the presence of the Unit, for there will be in any class a group of young men of robust instincts and patriotic tendencies who might feel inclined to pacify the pacifists to the damage of the latter if there were not a mild-mannered Col. Browning on the job as a guide toward tolerance. And besides, what business is it of the pacifists if three hundred odd students desire to acquire the gentlemanly...
...Incidentally, I observe that whenever a man does not want to go before a Grand Jury or other inquisitorial body his health fails. I have known more robust constitutions to be ruined by criminal courts than by all other plagues put together...
...Garrett made a short speech, describing his recent opponent as "a gentleman by birth, breeding and culture, a legislator of long experience and fine capacity, a robust partisan, but a polite one, and a presiding officer honest and fair...
...Minneapolis attention was called to the fact that Earl Martineau, captain and robust halfback of the University of Minnesota's football eleven, is receiving $100 monthly from the U. S. Veterans' Bureau as a result of injuries sustained...