Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once begin with the same drastic vigor that has proved salutary in Sicily...
...know in advance with what vigor Alsace-Lorraine will reject those (candidates) who try to hide their answer behind, 'ifs' and 'buts...
...article under consideration does not bring up the question of the inherent suitability of English as a field of college concentration; he rather implies that if some-how a different sort of contact were established between students and tutors, and if divisional were abolished that a new vigor and a new enthusiasm would spring up among the great legion of concentrators in English. In many respects it is the now familiar plea for inspirational contact and a chance to become educated by independent browsing...
Evangelist Moody was born in 1837, became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving...
...only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom of a cold pack of lies. Against an almost bibulously romantic setting of wharves, iron balustrades, blackamoors...