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Whether you choose the Vineyard or Nantucket cruise, the trip will be a Sunday well spent, and will offer a relaxing break in a strenuous week of study...
...backed in & out of the White House elevator by one or all of Teddy's four sons and two daughters. The youngsters roller skated on the shiny hardwood floors, burrowed through attics and ceilings, wobbled all over the White House on stilts. This was the era of the Strenuous Life, and the Roosevelt children lived...
World War I changed strenuous living from pranks to patriotism. Quentin, the ex-President's youngest son, was killed at the age of 20 in an air battle with two German planes, and took his place with Joyce Kilmer, Lord Kitchener and Rupert Brooke as one of the most widely publicized casualties of the war. Kermit came through unhurt; Archie was badly wounded; Theodore Jr., the oldest, was gassed once, wounded twice and decorated 15 times...
Gadgets and Dowagers. Einstein, whose love of music and sailing is well known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...
...these unnatural surroundings he works long furiously busy hours. He has had to give up horseback riding, which he loves. To keep in shape, the precise, 54-year-old General tumbles-a strenuous precise gymnastic sport at which he shines...