Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Wharton School graduated William Samuel Paley with a B. S. in economics in 1922. His father took him into the family cigar business. Bill Paley knew something about Congress Cigar Co. and about cigars. As a boy he had watched girls on high stools rolling rough tobacco into Java wrappers, shaping them, cutting off the ends. At 18, just out of the University of Chicago, where he spent one year, he had gone into his father's Philadelphia factory, had broken up a strike by taking these girls out to lunch. Still, he did not think...
...wistfulness and unreality. These qualities she puts to good advantage in Alice, the tale of a woman plagued by her children's bungling and over-zealous attentions. The Old Lady, which relates the adoption of a rowdy War hero by a pitiful charwoman, is cut a bit too rough to suit Actress Taylor's style. But many a Taylor and Barrie fan who goes to see this bill will come away well satisfied...
Philadelphia, Penn., March 17--Princeton defeated Columbia 38-35 in the play-off for the Eastern Intercollegiate League basketball title here tonight. Princeton led 19-16 at the half and was headed only once thereafter. The game was fast and rough throughout with frequent fouls. Seibert scored 14 points for Princeton and Fairman 13; McDowell was high scorer for Columbia with 13 points to his credit. This is Princeton's first League championship since...
...Treasury an extra $600,000,000 per year. Before this piece of tax timber could be put officially into the bill, certain exemptions had to be whittled out and administrative provisions chopped in. But committeemen, Republicans and Democrats alike, were so enthusiastic about this imported levy, even in the rough, that they declared it was a "sure thing." The committee was faced with this fiscal problem: to balance the 1933 budget about $1,250,000.000 had to be raised by new taxes. Upping rates on estates and incomes, individual and corporate, to the 1924 level provided $450,000,000. Increased...
...exhibition consisting of cartoons in black and white, rough designs, and finished sketches of stained glass windows with a few small glass medallions, by H. Wright Goodhue, youthful artist who contributed to restoring the art of stained glass to a high position in America, will be shown at Fogg Museum beginning next Wednesday and continuing through the month...