Word: stalwartness
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...wife (Francine Larrimore) is given ample scope for gliding sinuously from chair to chair and finally into the bed of her husband's friend, Major Bathurst (Nigel Bruce), just prior to the second act curtain. When the Major, personifying the stalwart virtues of the British Army, turns upon Miss Larrimore with a tongue-lashing for her immorality, the audience can almost imagine itself listening to the scene in Playwright Coward's Vortex wherein the son flayed his mother for her debauchery. Next year young Mr. Coward...
...puzzle unpleasant in the unravelling. To see a tiny bit of pig skin move back and forth in the zig zag of modern football remain among the few stalwart pleasures of modern life. And when those who do the zig zaggling represent Yale and Harvard the journey of the Ten Thousand is purely a Fighteous crusade and Cerberus not half the monster that he might be longjours landace pour le sport...
Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken in body, robbed...
Eight hundred and seventeen delegates assembled within the walled and turreted Kremlin last week. Lumbering peasants, stalwart workers, stern or oleaginous officials, they made up the 15th Conference of the Communist Party. One-fourth of them were empowered to take the floor in reply to a question from the Chair. One-sixth could comment on the debate. One-fourteenth were authorized to make speeches...
Last year when the Crimson made its stalwart defense of sanity in college football against the jibes of news writers and the cries of "sour grapes" issuing from that cavity, supposedly the native habitat of vox populi, there were those who believed that a desire for the star had afflicted one journalistic moth. Today in the pleasant glow which is a part of a well earned victory in any human activity the CRIMSON remains possessed of exactly the same viewpoint. Moderation in all things, including undergraduate athletics, is still a justifiable belief...