Word: vigor
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Smith. Citizen Smith had warmed up for his Massachusetts trip with three speeches for the State ticket in New York. He was in old time form, grinning much, champing his cigar, full of vigor and gusto. At New Haven on the back platform of his private car he greeted Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, onetime dean of the Yale Graduate School, now the Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut, by clapping the Brown Derby upon the old gentleman's head and down over his ears. At Providence he bluntly began an address to 15,000: "Well...
...scarlet-robed prince of the Catholic Church appeared for the first time last week to celebrate with Signore Benito Mussolini the eighth anniversary of the Fascist march to Rome. "May God preserve," cried Cardinal Sincero, "the providential vigor and strength of the Prime Minister!" Evidence of this vigor: 2,000 new public works costing a total of $100,000,000, inaugurated throughout Italy on the festive...
Then, turning on the German press with equal vigor, he cried...
...headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp, please...
...this show is composed of 18 inmates of a working women's hotel. Such a situation has comparatively fresh dramatic potentialities, but the story is archaic and the fact that all dealings with the unseen men characters have to be carried on offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant, the action must be signified by speeches...