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...robust plate of strawberries...
...leading Protestant denominations. Apparently all rise and fall together, influenced by the same things. Commented Dr. Kerr: "When God blesses the Presbyterians, he blesses also the Methodists and the Episcopalians and the Baptists." Because "today the line [of religious vitality] shows a decline," he expects a period of robust Evangelism to commence very soon, perhaps this 1900th. Pentecostal year. One means of rousing religious vigor which he recommended...
...Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself, with nervous twittering when...
Eventually the vines of America saved those of Europe and the antipodes. Virile to the point of coarseness, bursting with a health and vigor 100% American, they were rushed to the stricken vineyards of France and upon their robust stalks were grafted delicate, refined French shoots. Thus, by a stupendous paradox the U. S., which was to become dry, enabled France to continue...
...manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...