Word: roughed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough diamond, but rather a physical embodiment of the law of cunning and the law of force...
...night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life. At least...
...Wright '34, an ex-Lehigh matman, in the feature match of the afternoon. Both men displayed a large number of holds, with first the one and then the other on top, but Wright piled up a time advantage of six minutes and seven seconds after ten minutes or rough and tumble fighting. In the 155-pound class, S. T. Clarke 1M, a former Stanford mat star, easily threw Hayden Estey '36 with a half-nelson and body hold after only two minutes and 27 seconds...
Since the days of the Armistice the French have employed a consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit...
...beach was so rough that on several occasions I thought I was gone. ... I am not easily frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed...