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...Mussolini has made . . . an example to the rest of a nation which has not the steady energy of the English, nor the intense, if sometimes wasteful, energy of the American, nor the exacting Pflichtgefühl of the Germans. . . . [Mussolini's] extraordinary laborious life is founded upon the robust vitality and physique of a burly, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, rather short, well-knit athletic person...
...custom founded in the robust, treacherous days of the Stuarts required a King's minister to stand guard in the anteroom at royal births to make absolutely certain no foundling was palmed off on the English people (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). Last week Sir John stayed downstairs, the doctors and nurses being considered witnesses enough to the authenticity of Marina's child. At 2:05 a.m. a boy was born. The doctors took ten minutes to make sure it was hale and unblemished. Then they drew up their bulletin...
...Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth...
These men represent what next September should represent. In addition, they have a sense of humor sufficiently robust that the impressive ogre of the three centuries of Harvard traditions will not distract their attention from what the great event really means...
...Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...