Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Novel. Central figure of Santayana's strange first novel is Oliver Alden, robust, grey-eyed, precociously-intelligent son of a wealthy, ambitionless New England family that has fallen into a vague and harmless melancholy. Oliver's father married only from a sense of duty, spends most of his time on his yacht, drifting about the world, while occasional intimations of his paganism and vice reach Great Falls, Conn., to scandalize the family and cloud the contentment of his wife. In a loveless household Oliver grows up, excels at games and studies without exerting himself, does not begin...
...president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound boy. Aged 18, Poling was a spellbinder and preacher...
...another Claudette Colbert picture in what has become the traditional Colbert manner. It tells the story of a pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they can of the material with which...
...genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius could enable the Emperor to put himself-a frail, exquisite Semite who speaks French-on terms of friendly respect with robust Anglo-Saxon correspondents when they arrived in Addis Ababa and promptly nicknamed him "Little Charlie...
...Stag At Eve" which a few years ago made quite a sensation with its robust and not too polite humor was followed by a series of inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...