Word: strenuousness
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...White Russian Army of Kolchak, got to know Bolsheviks first hand. His dynamism kindled Mme Reynaud, homey daughter of a president of the Paris Bar Association, to step out and become an aviatrix. As for his own exercise, the new Premier is the kind of man who makes everything strenuous, even bicycling-his favorite sport. He once participated in a long-distance road race...
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Women's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held...
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Wom en's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held...
Stately, plump Dr. Gogarty landed in the U. S. last autumn with his pockets full of Queen's Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with...
...clothing. The money received from these foods was gambled away at night. We were awakened at 6:30 in the morning. Then the fight for the wash water began. Twenty men formed a group for breakfast. We spent the morning peeling potatoes and doing other chores but nothing strenuous. It was difficult to keep the men busy. At 11 o'clock we had lunch with a rest period of two hours following. The afternoon was spent also doing minor chores around the camp. Then, at 6 o'clock, supper, and finally locked in. At 8 o'clock...