Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taxi (Warner). If you have seen The Public Enemy, Smart Money or Blonde Crazy, you have some idea what to expect of Taxi. Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright are camera-minded writers and their stories, which usually deal in an offhand way with violent happenings, have speed, vigor and assurance. Fortunately for all concerned, James Cagney attracted Hollywood's attention at about the same time as Authors Bright and Glasmon. When he appears in one of their inventions the result is often brilliantly successful...
...usually less bright than the rest of the brood. He also behaves worse. But if the next child is of opposite sex, the second child stimulates and regulates the first. A child six or more years the junior of a brother or sister is generally dull. Intelligence and vigor depend on the social activity within a household and upon the heredity. Apparently it does not matter whether a couple is young or old to have intelligent offspring...
Small, neat, at 66 Dr. Breasted is nearly as full of vigor as he was when he bought his donkey. His smile still sends the ends of his silky white mustache curling up wards. He has the unusual faculty of making casual listeners as enthusiastic about digging as he is, has been known to excite even blase newsmen. Ancient kings he has disinterred he refers to as "my friends," jokes about his duty to intro duce them to modern civilization. The shrewdness of his Colonial van Breestede ancestors undoubtedly had been of service to him in raising money...
...There have been no other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
Scholastic achievements are the primary basis for selection of Rhodes scholars, but other factors are taken into consideration, especially character, college activities; and physical vigor...