robustious

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

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His upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture.

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Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.

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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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A robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas