Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is, of course, an exaggeration. But is the delusion that naturally arises from the primitive power of this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until reminded that the picture is produced by Leo Herman for the Palestine Foundation Fund, largely to allow Jews to escape from Germany. If the facts do not substantiate the impression given of a great folk migration, still it is true that the last two decades have seen inspiring fruits...
Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
...simple Breton from Douarnenez, began fighting as a private, finished as an infantry lieutenant scarred by eleven wounds. After the armistice he entered the Capuchin novitiate, preached to Communist fishermen on the quays of St. Malo, soon became superior of a monastery near Dinard. This tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon's calling cards now read: "Address from April 20 to Sept. 15 on the Grand Banks and Greenland...
...packed props and departed for the hinterlands, "Personal Appearance" titillated New York appetites for fifteen big, happy months. Brock Pemberton has now fitted Lawrence Riiey's opus with a second cast and loosed its lusty voice from the proscenium of the Plymouth theatre, just recently quieted after the robust howls of "Three Men on a Horse." Like its predecessor, "Personal Appearance" is definitely big-box-office. The roar of good, healthy American laughter is long and very loud. Your people, sir, enjoy "Personal Appearance...
...also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when Jim tells him candidly of his father's weakness. Oliver's first shock comes when he learns that his father is a narcotic addict...