Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director General of Internal Revenue Alfredo Rioseco came home from his office at Santiago one night last week, ascended to his bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that...
...best advantage without the irritating necessity of preparing last minute reports and attending detailed reviews in subjects on which he is already well informed. Assignments of reading pertaining to each course will constitute the sole mechanical requirement of the plan but these will not be of so strenuous a nature as to preclude the possibility of undertaking them according to their relative importance to the individual. The examinations succeeding will show beyond any doubt whether the student has made constructive use of his time or whether he has accepted it merely as a delightfully refreshing period of rest imposed...
...strenuous visitation of the same spirit causes Elmer's ejection, three years later, from Mizpah Theological Seminary. But he has known the intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...
...Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history. In 1914 he was exhausted by a brief but strenuous visit to the U. S. On seeing the Statue of Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clémenceau was broken...
...college my boys ever went through is the school of profanity" remarked Ted Lewis, "High Hat King of Jazz", speaking of his orchestra in an interview to the Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked...