Word: robust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gifted young college men, following the distinguished lead of Walter Lippmann, are exerting social and political pressure through editorial work in our dailies or weeklies. There is a sprinkling of them in our state legislatures and even in Congress.* ... The present situation is a still stronger challenge to robust American youth ... to take the initiative, to make up their minds what our democracy needs, and to use all their educational equipment and organizing powers to get it. ... I have no hesitation in saying to those who can stand a cold plunge: Come on in-the water's fine...
Throughout there are occasional bursts of humor, but most of the robust opportunities have been either overlooked or avoided. The leading parts of the missionary (Katherine Standing) and the sailor (David Tearle) are under-acted, while the various character parts are over-acted in every case with the possible exception of Clive's. The only memorable part is that of an alluring chambermaid (Elizabeth Johnston) sent to seduce the hero, but who succeeds only in winning the hero's cockney steward...
Several days after this, in conversation with a classmate, he was again asked if it were true that some of the larger purveyors of malt beverages in his city were getting set to slake the threads of the worthy with beer of a really robust percentage. When informed tentatively in the affirmative, he too signed and departed...
...star." Years ago he appeared with Evelyn Brent in a thing called "Underworld" which was undeniably good, but that was a long time ago. Since then he has shouldered his way along, smashing chairs, threatening women, killing men with his fists, breaking banks, and appearing in movies with such robust titles as "The Wolf of Wall Street." He has become very much of a ham actor. In his last work, hailed as a mighty picture by a mighty star, the producers have made the punishment fit the crime. "Rich Man's Folly", now at the University, is a thoroughly...
...five big banks failed (TIME, Aug. 24), depositors were receiving their first liquidation checks last week: 30% from one bank, 15%, and two of 10% from the others. "I am through with banking and from now on I will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses...