Word: vigorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement was to say that World's Work would revert to First Editor Page's principles. He promised that its oldtime "March of Events" section would again take its place in the front pages. Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons...
...question became further tangled when Representative James O'Connor of Louisiana, with true Celtic pride and vigor, sought official recognition for St. Brandan and "a number of Irish heroes" as the first voyagers, in the Sixth Century, to the new land across the ocean...
...seems impossible that such cold blooded practices may be allowed for long in any civilised society, but the growing indifference to the rights of individuals at present noticeable in this country appears to admit of anything. The vigor with which the present offenders in the name of law and order are prosecuted may serve as an index to the extent that a respect for an order that is higher than law still remains in the United States...
...Justice Holmes, a most liberal and learned member of the high court, dissented with brilliant vigor, drawing Justices Brandeis and Sanford to his reasoning. Because Mme. Schwimmer believed ardently in peace at any price, Mr. Justice Holmes could see no reason to deny her citizenship on that account. Declared...
...When passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the born. Trumpet melodiously at first. Then tootle with vigor, and express by word of mouth the warning...