Word: strenuousness
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This baby was David Schuyler. He grew up with his nephews and nieces who were older than himself. In a sense, he was like them, carrying on in his small person many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because...
Lest some or all of his august ancestors might have died a second time, cursing him upon his flypaper, frightened Yozo Fuyubayashi caused hired priests to perform, last week, loud, strenuous prayers, whereafter he made over to his son his prospering flypaper shop...
Husbands or Lovers provides somewhat sombre proof that immorality is poor policy. The wife (Elizabeth Bergner) leaves her husband (Emil Jannings) for a lover (Conrad Veidt) who grows tired of strenuous affection in a furnished room. At the last she decides the question of husband or lover by choosing neither and committing suicide. All this does not make for light entertainment; but, like most films made in Germany, the picture displays the advantages of intelligent direction with fine acting...
...have qualified as members of the club by a strenuous training period both on the ground and up in the air. Though all of them are not licensed pilots they are considered sufficiently trained for membership...
...most strenuous delegates was James E. Baum of the American Bankers' Association, whose plan for bands of citizen vigilantes armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns sounded much like the Ku Klux Klan...