Word: robust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just what was meant and brought about by the contest between the Harvard-Yale athletes and those of Oxford and Cambridge. "The Madness of Robert Martin," by R. C. Bolling '00, is hardly one of the writer's best stories. The phrases are now and then a little too robust, sometimes too reminiscent of the interminable Kipling; and though one can understand Martin's rebellion against society, his reconciliation seems rather abrupt, rather arbitrary. Still, the story runs brisk and strong, and is filled with genuine love of windy skies and high seas. "Dolls," though anonymous, is plainly the work...
...members of the Castle Square Opera Company will be happily cast. Mr. Wolff bears the chief burden of the piece on his sturdy shoulders in the title role of Rip. In every way this part should suit Mr. Wolff and his peculiar robust style. Mr. Persse, Mr. Murray and Mr. Wooley will be seen in character parts, while charming and dainty Clara Lane plays the dual role of the wife in the prologue and the child grown to womanhood...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
...believe that cheering at a game-robust and enthusiastic-is the proper thing. It makes the most conspicuous difference between college and professional games; it shows that there is loyalty to an institution as well as interest in a sport. And there is no reason why cheering for the home team should not be so conducted as to be entirely consistent with all courtesy to visiting teams. Applause is fitted for good plays, and should be given, no matter by whom the good play is made; but cheering is by its nature adapted for the support of only one team...
...observed that power of style, in the sense in which I am here speaking of style. is something quite different from the power of the idiomatic, simple, nervous, racy expression, such as the expression of healthy robust natures so often is, such as Luther's was it a striking degree. Style, in my sense of the word, is a peculiar