Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table...
...gray little gentleman (whose health is no longer any too robust) who dwells in the top of Hollis Hall and whom some might be disposed to pity because he has no family...
...drinking a glass of it to celebrate his victory. Came a night when he was the guest at a supper in the Savoy Hotel, London, at which Loie Fuller, dancer, and Mme. Yvette Guilbert performed for him as if he were royalty. Where another would thump his chest in robust braggadocio, he speaks with a sly wink and a deprecating gesture, for he wants the reader to understand that Corbett was a prize-fighter who wore a gardenia in his buttonhole...
They saw in his pictures the work of one who, having inherited by birth a robust spirit, acquired by industry a technic, has seen no reason to believe that restraint is a healthier quality than courage, that tone is a better word than color, or that sublety is a synonym for strength. "A picture," said the cold ones, "should be judged according to the terms of its own formula. Though his canvases, vehemently composed, daringly colored, win praise from people who might damn a better picture because it was subtle, restrained, they are not the less good art. A capable...
Having successfully matched his wits against the gentry of the press, in their own tongue, he slipped away into the artistic group which was awaiting him, less appreciative perhaps of the deliberate moving, mellow-voiced, robust man than of the greatness of his works...