Word: lustier
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...novels to his credit, but only one of them, Champion Road (1950), the story of a building promoter, has ever been picked for the export market. U.S. readers who choose British novels for their fine texture will not care for The Fortunate Man; those who like an older and lustier tradition well...
...Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have come a varied bunch of visitors, including a novelist in flight from the tax collectors, a journalist, a Greek professor, a gang of salmon poachers. And it so happens that the laird's lovely daughter chooses this moment to stage...
...bull has pranced up more than 110 points (see chart), has put on weight despite such hammer blows as 1948's Berlin blockade, 1949's recession, 1950's outbreak of war. Each time, with nothing more than a momentary stumble, it has roared back louder and lustier than ever...
...like determination to make himself Houston's first citizen and in the conduct of his business empire-which includes vast oil holdings, Houston's radio station KXYZ, a chemical works, 14 neighborhood newspapers and a swank men's shop-he often seems a throwback to the lustier days of the 19th Century...
...storm swamped a rowboat on Cayuga Lake in 1916, a young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...