Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...
...Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor of his character, ceases to be a spectator, joins the big show. Author McCready has the ability to tell a swift story swiftly, to make events and people assume spasmodic vitality. His writing is not polished but it is workmanlike, easy to read...
...PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of exploding shrapnel, his stories lack the controlled and deliberate, effectiveness of heavier artillery...
...expects something different from Professor Perry. Characteristically he has written a preface, entitled "The Author's Apology," in an age that has forgotten apologies for such titles as "Tramping on Life." More important, and infinitely pleasing, is the contrast between the tranquil vigor of his prose and the flurried bristling style affected by so many modern essayists...
...Washington, President Machado officially invited President Coolidge to attend the Pan-American Conference on International Law to be held in Havana in February, 1928. Six feet in height, heavily built, President Machado has, for his vigor of policy as well as physique, been termed "Mussolini of Cuba."* From Washington he went to Wall Street, to talk sugar...