Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beloved veteran will be succeeded by Alois Lang, a woodcarver, of whom he is a distant relative. There are some 200 Langs in Oberammergau. Alois is tall, robust, 38. In 1922 he lost the election to play Jesus by only a few votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout...
Born in golf-famed Carnoustie, Scotland, one of five golfing brothers (Willie, George, James, Macdonald), he came to the U. S. in 1897 and became, with Willie Anderson, Ben and Gilbert ("Gil") Nicholls, one of the game's U. S. quartet of Grand Old Men. Witty, violent, robust, strong-tongued, he was a great teacher. He loved to recall the time when a golf-bag was an object of ridicule. "Do I look like a sissy? Well, that's what they called...
...naturalize Mormons. To the Mormons, however, polygamy was a heaven-ordained adjustment. What to do? Prophet Wilford Woodruff, then head of the Church, announced that after due meditation it had been revealed to him that heaven thereafter forbade polygamous practice. Many were the individual violations of this manifesto ; robust, marrying Mormons still professed their old belief that millions of disembodied souls needed to be born, to escape the eternal darkness which would befall the unborn at the millennium. But gradually the wisdom of the Prophet pervaded his followers, and Mormonism individually as well as officially abandoned a custom which...
Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
...least a compromise with the ancients. Those who have found in the classics a metal that never tarnishes will go to be again confirmed. When in 1906 the Classical Club presented "Agamemnon", the twentieth century found its somber colors still unfaded under the stadium sky. In 1930 the robust comedy of Plautus will paint in lighter, sharper colors the humors and frailties of a no less common humanity...