Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a strenuous afternoon of instruction, tea was served to the memberes of the two companies. At the same time, news reels and newspaper photographs were taken out of doors, a considerable crowd watching the proceedings...
...Simple Life, famed book by Charles Wagner, was, in the current catchpenny philosophy, the complement of Theodore Roosevelt's doctrine of "the strenuous life...
When asked her opinion of mystery plays Miss Rambova replied that they were most strenuous for the actress. "We are continually studying the audience," she said, "in order to get the right effect. So much depends on the little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse...
...cast is distinguished by veteran and as well as new talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
...surprises would not be revealed until just after New Year's. With the Manhattan automobile show begins a strenuous stretch of weeks when the automobile men of the U. S. flock from city to city in a mood half carnival, half belligerent. What important Detroiters were doing last week- besides conferring finally with engineers, designers, bodybuilders and advertising experts-was to make hotel reservations, dates with friends, memoranda of wives' shopping orders, etc., etc. Their big annual party and grim selling campaign, were about to begin...