Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
Judge Moore is at present 67, but still robust, brisk and apparently untouched by care. A native of Delaware, he studied law, then entered the State Department Service at 25. So evidently potent were his talents that at 31 he was called to the Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University. Since then he has been recalled to Washington several times to serve as Assistant Secretary of State. In 1913 he was chosen a member of the old Hague Court (The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague) ; and in 1921 he became a judge of the World...
...noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins and Alice Timoney, sisters, southerners, journalists. The members...
...bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public and human interest? The result has been, (as most obviously seen in the English and Philosophy Departments) that the qualifications for advancement on the Faculty have been reduced to a tea-drinking respectability and academic propinquity which must needs exclude robust personalities and original minds with the zeal, ardor and conviction necessary to instill into young blood a respect and admiration for knowledge and a desire to pursue it for its own sake. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
...Said robust Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile workers of America, editor of The Textile Worker: "We have read so much recently, like millions of our countrymen, about this thing which is called prosperity, but I am willing to confess that outside of bankers, speculators, bootleggers and prize fighters, the thing to me is a myth, if not worse...