Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the street three boys were rolling beer cans on the sidewalk; they sounded hollow against the rough cement...
...three years ago crowned a lifetime of varied business and sporting activity by building the $1,200,000 Narragansett racetrack near Pawtucket, R. I, developed it into one of the richest racing establishments in the U. S. Robert Emmet Quinn is a fiery little Irishman of 43, a rough and tumble politician who crowned his career last year by getting elected Governor of Rhode Island. That the Union's smallest State is too small to hold two such little Irishmen was a fact which even the dullest Rhode Islander comprehended full well last week...
...plant and tooling were necessary to launch the new models. The lack of newcomers and new gadgets means that dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road in 1937 because of unprecedented Labor troubles, U. S. automobile men last week were noticeably free from the gloom of Wall Street...
...anti-trust laws the speaker said that "despite frequent prophecies of their death, these laws are not only alive but show signs of renewed vitality." Reviewing the history of the oil industry, he declared that the Sherman Anti-trust Law has eliminated rough-and-tumble methods and hitting below the belt, and prevented an outright monopoly of gasoline, but it "has not altered the desire of business men to combine; nor has it enabled you and me to get our gasoline at the lowest possible prices." On the arrival of NRA, "the voice of the consumer was drowned...
Lawyer Shutts as receiver in 1910. Forthwith he liquidated the paper, built upon its ruins the hardy Herald. Like Publisher Knight a successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...