Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
...issue thus drawn between President Roosevelt and Mr. Ford seemed to involve much more than just the automobile industry's code. It was the first clean-cut major encounter between the new "robust collectivism" and a prime exponent of the old "rugged individualism." Mr. Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code...
Italy has no No. 2 Fascist, no political heir apparent to Benito Mussolini, but in Berlin high-pitched, vegetarian, nonsmoking Adolf Hitler knows only too well the sumptuous apartment of the bass-voiced, carnivorous, robust No. 2 Nazi...
...think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime...
...idea that "all the world loves a lover" apparently leaves the robust subordinates of Mr. Apted quite cold. Heaven only knows how many budding romances that might conceivably lead to finer things have been hopelessly atropied by the insistence of those ample gentlemen that there be no sitting upon the dormitory steps. No official explanation of this action is forthcoming; hence, we can only assume that so much easily combustible material upon the steps constitutes a dangerous fire hazard...