Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from men by the time she was 15. She fell in love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust, hard-riding plantation aristocrats, primarily because she could not get him to pay much attention to her. He was going to marry her friend Melanie, another thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue on a neighboring plantation, asked him to marry her, counting...
Meanwhile the women and younger children were disporting themselves at Essex Country Club at Manchester-by-the-Sea. A program of swimming and tennis was outlined for the more robust souls while those of less sturdy nature took part in a putting tournament, a scavenger hunt, and even bridge...
...such primitive hardship as witnessed by Reader Ridgway. -ED. Artful Armenian Sirs: While browsing among the pages of the May 18 issue of TIME ... to which I am a subscriber at the Compton (Calif.) junior college, I couldn't avoid running across the somewhat handsome faces of several robust blubbering behemoths of the grunt and groan industry appearing under the box-caption, Sport. The reason for my writing is Harry (Arteen) Ekizian, better known to fight fanatics as AH Baba, the Terrible Turk. Because...
There was dignified, plump, white-haired Floretta D. McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game...