Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...
...foundations of which were uncovered in building the Harvard Square subway terminal. But Eaton's school was a miserable affair, a boarding-school of Oliver Twist pupils and Fagan-like masters, and Eaton himself was removed in two years for assaulting a "Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard of his house. This original Yard extended across the site of Wadsworth House (the yellow wooden building at the corner of the Yard next to Lehman Hall) to about...
...Provincetown citizens gathered to greet the President, give him an expensive ship's model. But said Skipper Roosevelt to his crew: "Let's fool the Press and go on to Gloucester without stopping." So on they went, driving through the rough dark to drop the hook at midnight...
President Roosevelt shaved and put on a clean white shirt (but no tie) to receive his other Gloucester callers-Col. Edward Mandell House, who summers nearby, and Director of the Budget Douglas to talk about pension cuts. Then the Amberjack II put-putted through the Annisquam Canal to miss rough water off Cape Ann and sailed on to Little Harbor, N. H. for the night. There next morning 15-month-old Granddaughter Sara Delano Roosevelt spent a few minutes in the President's arm, expressed delight with the Amberjack II's glittering brass work...
...Commission and is now chair-man of the Mercer County commission. Last March he declined appointment as State Emergency Relief Director. His biggest job in the past year was the survey Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton to make of New Jersey's Government. With 20 assistants, large, rough-haired, pipe-smoking Dr. Dodds worked four months without missing a class or lecture, turned in a 150,000-word report showing how savings of $14,000,000 could be made in the State's $50,000,000 budget...