Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first artists to co-directly out of a peculiar art sponsored by former furriers and glove salesmen. Like her he has remained in the imaginations of those who applauded the screen's first crudities and naive, simplicity that often had a power of its own. Manly, but not robust heroism and splendid, sad faced patience through adversity won Richard Barthelmess his place...
...thought he might run for Mayor in place of bumbling John Patrick O'Brien (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). This time what his welcomers lacked in public prestige they made up for in warmth of spirit, and their greeting went straight to sentimental Jimmy Walker's none too robust heart. "I'm happy but abashed," he said chokingly "I'm happy but humiliated. . . . I love every cobblestone in the City of New York. I did my best, but now I am through, confident that the record will be my best eulogy as long as I live...
...robust, blue-eyed, life-loving son of a poor watchmaker, Beaumarchais won the attention of Louis XV when he devised an escapement for clocks, fought with a rival watchmaker who claimed his invention. He became the protégé of a minor palace official, purchased the office of secretary of the royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly...
...robust Chicago politicians, led by Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, departed, proud that they had supplied the money to enable Iroquois Memorial Hospital to inaugurate what they believed was the world's first pneumothorax clinic for the wholesale treatment of tuberculosis...
...vivid and imaginative Soviet novelist who could describe the wild and involved battles of civil war without lapsing into melodrama or propaganda found their man last year in Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don). In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of a collective farm with robust humor, with good-natured mockery at the zeal and pompousness of Communists, with shrewd sympathy for the bewilderment of peasants...