robustious

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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.

From Time Magazine Archive

After flitting into Britain to plug one of her movies, robustious Jayne Mansfield ran afoul of an unchivalrous lensman, emerged on film as a cow in leopard's clothing.

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After serving as host at a heaping Thanksgiving dinner for elderly folks, Boston's unpompous Archbishop Richard J. Cushing shifted into high, merrily danced an Irish jig with two robustious ewes of his diocesan flock.

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P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman."

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And a robustious fellow with great voice, and lace and sword, strutting forward near the lights.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried