Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result," declared his secretary, "the Primate is suffering from severe cramps and head pains. Although he is robust, his health was greatly affected by the ordeal...
...When a robust man suddenly drops dead and the newspapers report "heart failure," the probability is that he died during an attack of angina pectoris. If he had gone to his doctor the day before, the doctor would probably have slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina...
Author Kingsmill does not believe that Dickens was "a simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable emotional hypochondriac, living in fear lest any breath of fresh air should penetrate into the hothouse of his inner life." Dickens' marriage was unhappy, but he did little to gain popular sympathy when, after separating from his wife, who had lived with him 22 years, borne him ten children...
...fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down to a properly appointed dinner." At the royal luncheon table, however, His Majesty, a keen, hard aristocrat of the old Italian breed, had no difficulty in keeping up his end with the robust offspring of the storekeeper, the blacksmith and the chieftain...
...year after, sat at the bedside and read to poliomyelitis-victim Roosevelt. Although he has a wife, son and daughter, Louis Howe has lived as much with the Roosevelts as at home, and today has his room (Abraham Lincoln's) in the White House. His health has never been robust and during the 1932 campaign when he worked day & night and slept in his clothes, he lost 32 lb. He takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After...