Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist tanks; fogs and rains made aerial bombing almost impossible. Whipped on by El Caudillo ("The Chief") Franco's demands that "Gijon must fall before the snow," Rightist troops did capture a vitally important strategic peak on the Gijon front, but the city was still 30 miles of rough terrain from its attackers. Gijon refugees reaching France last week reported "the city is near starvation...
...Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since Soviet rule in Riga was overthrown...
...Downtown Gallery, twelve ambitious young U. S. painters were represented by their best work of the year. From Boston, where he was born in 1915, Jack Levine sent the most powerful canvas in the show, a Street Scene with three dreamlike, prodigious figures. As elegant as this was rough, The Various Spring by O. Louis Guglielmi, 31-year-old New Yorker, showed three identical blue-shirted workmen climbing maypoles to reach gift platters in each of which reposed a little dead Madrileno...
...principles, the high sportsmanlike standards of business as now carried on in England, Europe as a whole, and in America. For we are sportsmen, we men of business. . . ." Subsequent columns dealt with such topics as "Sliding on the Surface or Digging Deep?'', "What Lands Us in the Rough of the Game of Life," "Thinking Constructively.'' Readers who plowed through these lush homilies generally concluded that Harry Selfridge was about to extend his operations to Manhattan. Last week Harry Selfridge, still pert and lively at 79, declared, "There is nothing further from my mind than...
...little too modern for credulity. Possibly this is part of the charm of the book since, although we of today cannot imagine such happenings in a Twentieth Century such happenings in a Twentieth Century world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that these were the men who built the west and are responsible for the extent to which civilization has been allowed to travel...