Word: ruggedness
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Death came quietly to President Eliot in the sea-washed rugged hills of Mt. Desert Island. There was no blaring of trumpets, no dramatics, only the calm courage which had characterized his life. A few days before the end he startled his nurse with the quiet remark that he would...
Not many days are required to restore Shiloh to his best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress...
It was not generations ago, this scene, but one of the mornings of last week. The buffalo, some of the last in the world, were restive because the day before, to their retreat on the rugged northern end of Antelope Island, had come a smell that they had seldom known...
He is 66, and he said with no drop of his calm eyes: "What must be asked of the surgeon is not that he should be young, but that he must not be old. When old age appears at the turning of the road, when the sacred fire begins to...
Tragic Eighteen. Under brown, rugged ceiling beams, from a row of quaint stalls that-substitute for balcony and gallery in the Charles Hopkins Theatre, the audience follows, sympathetically but a trifle wearily, the fortunes of an Iowa innocent (Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes...