Word: robust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robust Decree...
...completed all but the last few weeks of the season without conducting a note of "musical propaganda." Then rumors reached him that Fascist myrmidons were preparing to garner his scalp. Prudent, he withdrew from the theatre, alleging "poor health." Despatches reported last week that he had never seemed more robust...
...determined and proceeded to study medicine in London. That great wen upon the globe was stirring with the germs of Socialism when young Ellis, preceded by a burst of beard which he never later relinquished, returned to it (1881) robust and whole in mind, body and spirit. He looked in at some meetings of the Progressive Association (forerunner of the Fabians); even compiled a Socialist hymnal omitting God's name; but lost active interest when an economic emphasis was put upon the movement. The young doctor-artist's concern was to become tactually, factually, acquainted with the physical side...
Although the club was not as fortunate in its program as in the preceding concerts it unquestionably did the best singing of the season. The tenor choir seemed more robust than at previous hearings this was especially evident in "Out of he Depth I Cry to Thee" by Bach...
...CRIMSON reporter then ventured to ask if Walt Whitman at least did not possess some of the robust masculine qualities which are attributed to him. "As in Sandburg, these qualities exist in Whitman's words only," Mr. Hillyer replied. "The sentimental note of his early stories was the underlying one in all of his works, even after he had picked up that trick of bold, virile lenguage which made him famous...