Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonplace that only skillful treatment can make it plausible if not affecting. By the time Geza (Nils Asther) goes to the front you are ready to believe in his feeling for Irina (Kay Francis), at whose country house his troops have been quartered. The day when her robust old husband Dushan (Walter Huston) finds out is also the day when Geza is in danger of being court-martialed by the officer in command of the town. Irina goes to warn him to escape. Dushan follows to create a scene. The commanding officer arrives last of all but Dushan has meanwhile...
...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...
Principal Sidwell is a robust, alert pedagog at 74. He putters at his two farms in Maryland, admires the domestic allotment plan of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace who has a boy and girl in the school. Some other Friends' parents: Newton D. Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler...
...lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...Atlantic City last June, Floyd Leslie Carlisle served notice on the N. E. L. A. that it must purge itself if it wished to avoid stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons...