Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sugar brokers, for several weeks the target of various and unflattering comment from all sides, have taken heart and are stating their side of the case with vigor. One prominent Sugar Exchange member is reported to have declared: " Those who advocate a boycott on sugar, the politicians and publicity seekers, have no idea whatever of the present status of the sugar crop. Most of them, as a matter of fact, don't know where our sugar comes from. But they all join in the hurrah of 'cut down on sugar,' mostly for the reason that it gets...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...
...matter of fact, nothing is more necessary to keep the League alive than youthful optimism. Its advocates may point out its past successes, it present organization, and its future possibilities with brilliance and vigor, but in general conservative age fails to be impressed. The older man relies largely on precedent and experience. The young man, with no experience to rely on, and small knowledge of precedent, is more willing to try anything once. Certainly the European nations have belied the imputation of age by their eagerness to try something which has the charm of novelty; America has shown the world...
...further waste of ink to say more of this Benito Mussolini. But he is a figure who challenges comparison; one who has not proved a short-lived upstart, nor yet an overbearing Napoleon, seeking to conquer Europe; but one whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation requesting the observance of the fiftieth anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death. His phrasing in this is characteristic: "I desire that, even...
Charles McD. Puckette, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, said in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: " To The New York World I would award the honor of being the newspaper of greatest distinctive character, day in and day out; for the vigor of its news and editorial columns; and the dominant ideal of The World today is that same ideal of public service originally conceived by and steadfastly held to by the great Joseph Pulitzer...