Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kaiser greeted me vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...
...specimen: "It [the Jordan 'Playboy' Roadster] is a wonderful companion for a wonderful girl and a wonderful boy. . . . It's a shame to call it a roadster. . . . This brawny thing with the vigor of boyhood and morning...
Artur Bodanzky, conducting, called into service the windswept vigor which he acquired last summer at the Lido, Venice, where his lean torso was seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
...GLORY-Sir Gilbert Parker-Harpers ($2.00). This broad canvas is open to the criticism, so frequently heard these days, that it was painted to hang in the cinema boxoffice. But what of that. The epic exploits of its tall and handsome hero are swept in with splendid vigor. Its backgrounds of political intrigue at the court of Louis XIV, of rushing rivers and Indian-filled forests in Canada and Mid-America, are lavish and alive. The hero, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited. He might be embarrassed...
...recovers his old vigor (and his physicians declare that there is nothing the matter with him that cannot be cured by rest and diet), it is expected that when he next returns to Moscow it will be to occupy a position vastly more important than any which he has held since his "banishment...