Word: strenuous
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Austere Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, a strenuous foe of physical exercise (he abolished intercollegiate football at the University of Chicago nine years ago), crammed his 6 ft. 3 in. into an undersized football uniform for You're in the Styx, Professor, the annual faculty show. Hutchins struck a blow for higher education by warbling, in an uncertain baritone, The Rose Bowl Blues...
...Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
...Tossy finds a few minutes to teach his blonde daughter Ruth, 10, his special brand of fiddling. But as for Ruth having a fiddler's career, Tossy says "too strenuous for a woman, at least our little woman...
Andre Gide has lived to hear his works pronounced first immoral and then immortal, which may or may not prove true. In the less strenuous competition for cinema immortality, "Symphonie Pastorale" may or may not prove to be worthy, but from here it looks to be a sure thing...
Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...