Word: strenuousness
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...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...
...this 495-page book, Historian Myers gives bigotry one of its most strenuous workouts. He puts at the disposal of those who would combat bigotry, and who would preserve merely credulous and ill-informed people from the infection of intolerance, a tremendous arsenal of fact and of reference. Not content with the merely local effects of bigotry, Gustavus Myers moves, with exhaustive industry, in the iceberg depths of precedent and origin-deep into England, deep into ancient Rome...
...back; above all, with a gag man's sense of timing. Says Hope: "I was born with timing and coordination." Artistically he was born with little else-no special trick of speech, gift of pantomime, sense of character. Quite inartistically, indeed, he was born with a kind of strenuous averageness-which paradoxically managed to set him apart...
...best can be a pure, heart-lifting delight. His latest partner, Joan Leslie, imparts the double impression in their dance numbers that she is hanging onto his thumb and that she is doing remarkably well in view of the fact that she is not Fred Astaire. At less strenuous moments Cinemactress Leslie is so nice to look at that her feet are the last thing anybody is likely to notice...
...Strenuous Life. In Wilbur, Wash., the spinning rod of a reaper caught Rancher Walter Wynhoff by the overalls, gave him a spin, tossed him aside wearing only his shoes and eyeglasses. In an Army maneuver area in Tennessee, a bolt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag, welded it all the way around, sealed up a soldier inside, uninjured...