Word: strenuousness
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...Freshman five will play its first game on a foreign court this afternoon at 4 o'clock when it meets the Worcester Academy quintet at Worcester. Coach Chase expects a strenuous battle, as the schoolboys always put a strong team on the floor...
...dignity and a natural shrewdness that instantly win over the grumbling people of Barataria; in the final scene his popularity protects him from the machinations of the ambitious nobles, who seek to usurp the crown. In his comedy parts he is substantially aided by Robert Rosaire, who has the strenuous role of Dapple, Sancho's beloved donkey. But the entire east is a strong one; the performance is smooth and finished, the scenes are spectacular and interesting...
...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
...Strenuous Americans...
Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...