Word: strenuousness
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...they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask of Cybel, prostitute and symbol of Earth...
...Lapses of 1910. Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability to forwarding a strenuous campaign for research in cancer or its prevention. He will probably act through the British Society for the Control of Cancer, which has branches in all the dominions...
...taken from Soldiers Field to the Armory yesterday afternoon where stalls have been arranged for with the Army officials for the remainder of the season. The mounts were again given on easy workout immediately afterwards by members of the team and found to be in poor condition for a strenuous contest...
...Toronto sextet has been resting since its strenuous first week in this country during which it won four games by decisive scores. The highest score which it has turned in was in the last game against Dartmouth, when the Canadians rolled up ten goals without any apparent effort, while holding their opponents scoreless...
High blood pressure, a disease mainly of old age results from many causes-riotous living, too strenuous athletics, brain fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself...