Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa last week Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett behaved in a manner which correspondents called "rough and almost dictatorial" with respect to the coming Conference. Members of the Cabinet complained privately that Mr. Bennett was excluding them from his confidence. Preparations seemed to be under way to exclude the Press as much as possible from Conference doings...
Frank Aloysius Tichenor is much more believable as publisher of Outlook than as publisher of Spur. Rough-&-ready, earthy, amazingly energetic, simple in his tastes, his interests lie far afield from Spur's studied elegance. He is a natural and practiced politician. Now a Republican, he is convinced that the time is nearly ripe for a Third Party, sees an opportunity to rebuild Outlook's influence to what it was in Roosevelt...
...entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
Spotlight was printed on rough stock, illustrated with pencil sketches and wood blocks, with headlines in heavy, modernistic type...
...closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...