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...alone for the establishment and survival of decency. His has been such an exceptional and well-known career of unselfish fighting for right against all conceivable odds that you damage your own reputation as a reliable authority when you state that the paper "is not renowned for its editorial vigor...
...time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor, for the tough, hard-driving job of arming the unarmed U. S. in record time. Unlike him, Frank Knox (66) came up the hard way: grocery clerk, gym teacher, sign painter, reporter to publisher...
...Branson is now at the age of "67 off." He claims that grass eating has enhanced his "activity, vitality, enthusiasm and vigor," so that he cycles "100 miles a day without any exhaustion." But he warned his readers to go slow. To an inexperienced stomach, said he, grass brings "super-purgation...
...this time the boos, mingled with a few cheers, were deafening. When Mr. Sigourney finished his speech, the crowd staged its confetti battle, fought with more vigor than enjoyment. That night Harvard was a house divided...
...Traveler, founded in 1825, is Bos ton's biggest afternoon paper (circulation 210,000), but it is not renowned for its editorial vigor. In the normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...