Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often and who attend modern performances of his dramas largely because it will give them an opportunity of referring to Booth, Irving...
...need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short a time as has elapsed since the settlement of America. Aesthetic minds are attained only after material effort stagnates; preeminence in culture implies that the young vigor of a nation has gone to seed, and a more mature blossom has taken its place. The South, and Greenville especially, seems to be overflowing with this young vigor, and when it turns to fields of art, its materialism becomes painfully obvious. Trousers on the Apollo Belvedere is enough to make even...
...qualities which will be considered in making the selection are literary and scholastic ability and attainments, qualities of manhood, truth, courage, and moral force of character, and physical vigor as shown in outdoor sports or other ways. Exceptional athletic prowess is not essential to election...