Sentence:  By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon , which , one would think , would be late enough so that by then , except for small children and a few <WSD>hardy</WSD> souls who had not yet sobered up , it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night 's noisemakers and paper hats . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships