Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dancing is commonplace, the book childish; and the central character (Alfred Drake, late of Oklahoma!), a happy-go-lucky figure condemned in Puritan times to wander the roads from generation to generation, lacks the tang and sinew of a Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan. What should have been an exciting show remains, at best, a pleasant song recital...
...finals were a race between two completely dark horses. Outsped, outreached, outbrawned by Western Kentucky, West Virginia trailed at half-time 32-24, stayed behind for 35 of the 40 minutes, though never by more than eight points. But where they were short on sinew the Mountaineers more than made up with heart. With the score at 45-all and 20 seconds left to play, little Hicks sank the winning foul shot. As the timekeeper's buzzer went off, Hamilton was fouled and sank another...
...Land Is Bright is not wrecked by its broad laughs, its even broader satire, its jumble of incident, its rush of events. There was no need to treat the theme solemnly. But there was no need to take all the guts and sinew out of it, to make every character an exaggeration, every action a stencil, every speech a cliché-and then bathe the entire scene in a lurid purple light. But all these faults don't make it dull. It has as much kick as a decanter of bad whiskey...
...Jackson, the old border fighter and duelist who declared: "Ask nothing but what is right, submit to nothing wrong. . . . True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and producing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy." Old Hickory's shoots still spring green in the Volunteer State...