Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strenuous? He explained himself...
Meanwhile the Herr President was besporting himself on a strenuous vacation probably having forgotten that he had ever written or had his secretary write a statement for the Nation's Business. At Dietmannsried, in Bavaria, he was the guest of Frau Hubert Von Schilicher, the widow of a friend. There he rises at 7:30, according to report, works until noon, dines heartily, then walks for three or four hours in spite of his 78 years. Occasionally he goes on a chamois hunting expedition with his son, Major Von Hindenberg, his son-in-law, Herr Von Kugelgen...
...Honest & Strenuous...
...evening, feeling that he had expressed himself, he bundled off home. Next day, Mr. George Bernard Shaw used a spare five minutes to write a letter to the London Times. Said he: "The Memorial is unquestionably the real thing, with all the power of stone, the illusion of strenuous passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein sample. Why should not these people have a sanctuary all to themselves? ... If Fay Compton or Gladys Cooper would pose as Rima with a stuffed pigeon on each wrist...
...every other consideration, studies not excluded; and the difference between amateurism and professionalism becomes largely a technicality. An amateur in football is certainly not an amateur in the general meaning of the word. But complaint on the score of injuries has less justification. Football, to be sure, is more strenuous than, say squash. But it is not so dangerous as lacrosse. Yet there has been no very very wide plea to abolish lacrosse...