Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Europe's cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...into Hitler, complete with hair hanging in his face and nervous uneasiness. Possibly the reason for preferring the Teuton to the Latin is that in the play so much is made of the dictator's bodily infirmities, all of which applies much better to Der Fuhrer than to the robust Italian. Lawrence Fietcher in the title role does his relatively small job with all the proper arrogance...
Last week Jake Kilrain, lately a night-watchman, died of cancer, heart disease and gangrene on the exact day the American Mercury appeared with this robust account of the almost incredibly titanic Kilrain-Sullivan battle. The story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first...
...also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when he made his report after four months work, the directors were so impressed that they took a step drastic in any business and completely unprecedented in Field's 70-year-history...
...argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...