Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
...dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated Student Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Austria's Crown Prince, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Who was this archconspirator? Outside...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
This is the case against our maturity which Mr. Brooks makes. It is too schematized, too simplified to carry the robust convictions of the author over to his readers. Yet while one doubts his causes or his effects it is impossible to neglect his analysis of the actual facts themselves. There is a dichotomy in our life. Our literature is an isolated, extremely simple, cultural gymnastic. As Mr. Brooks points out a student in economics had but two choices of a career (though now he possesses an obvious third); he can remain and study more about economics and become more...
...your son is on one of these boats." "My son is here? Where?" The old man rushed to the rail. Suddenly he spied the figure of a short bespectacled young man on the cutter Hudson below. "Oh, Junior! Junior!" he cried. "Hello, pop. How are you doing?" came the robust-voiced reply. Thus the Samuel Insulls met last week for the first time since they parted nearly two years ago in Milan. As the younger man climbed up the ship's side, his father rushed forward, embraced him. Senior Insull, trembling with excitement, turned to his fellow passengers...