Word: vigor
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Among so-called Bright Young People "lousy" has become a playful adjective. Even "guts" is almost a tea-table noun. But in London last week Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of Lady Diana Manners, used both these words with Victorian vigor. In a speech attacking Viscount Rothermere, blatant "British Hearst," Mr. Cooper rumbled and roared...
...vigor of the well worn pens of Harvard CRIMSON editors, undergraduates are launching a bitter tirade against the building of a new chapel to replace the vine-covered and consecrated Appleton Chapel which has stood in the Yard for long decades. More than ten days ago University officials announced the sage idea of erecting a new church as a memorial to Harvard's war heroes...
Walter Huston as Brady, the warden, interprets his part with a vigor and grasp that almost give a feeling of personal contact. The wronged young man played by Phillips Holmes is also a living figure. Boris Karloff as Galloway, the hardened criminal, presents what is probably the best acting in the whole production. He does not attempt to show merely a realistic figure, but instead he concentrates his efforts in creating the character he is presenting and in that he is highly successful...
...were a few doctors. Conspicuously absent were women who revel in tales of their own childbearing, women too prudish to discuss procreation in any manner, Catholic women obedient to the Pope's denunciation of any hindrance to conception (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week's meeting lacked the vigor of previous conventions. Some speakers interpreted the Pope's denunciatory encyclical as favorable to birth control. "It paves the way for the inevitable fight over what is one of the most important biological findings in history"-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley of London. Other speakers and a formal resolution politely...
Political discussion over the foaming beer mug appears to be one of the greatest attractions in the student life of Germany, aside from the pleasures of dueling. In Heidelberg the recent Hitlerite riot against the police brings out the vigor with which the men are willing to support their political opinions. The general apathy of American undergraduates toward national questions offers a marked contrast...