Word: vigourousness
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...genius. Today British and American body politics are apt to fight shy of the genius and select a leader more nearly representative. To enslave that leader in a mass of details which will possibly cause an untimely death is hardly consistent with humanity. Nor can every statesman have the vigour and vitality of Roosevelt and Lloyd George...
...collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...good, but it is fully as apt eventually to become a power for evil, so far as the future of the American drama is concerned. We have here now a new school of playwrights turning out work of a distinctive type which bids fair to increase in depth and vigour; should a board of censors whatever its motives, be turned loose in this field, who can foretell the result? It has been shown here in our own Workshop that it takes many years to train an audience to be intelligently critical; what would happen if a group of persons, untrained...
...have acts of their own. Carrillo is especially good in his Chinese imitations and stories and Fay Marbe as a Mexican dancing girl. The exhibition of Spanish dancing is pleasantly extended in another part of the program by the Cansinos, who execute dances of great beauty with grace and vigour. Their setting is very effective...
...have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible world of inward inclinations and dispositions by the visible world of outward words and actions. Meanwhile the romanticism though declining in vigour, is far from decrepitude and has too been an international influence...