Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the pioneering days of the stage coach, the Pony Express, and finally the first, crude railroads, "Wells-Fargo," which opens today at the University Theatre, is another of Paramount's glorified historical westerns. Following closely the pattern of "Covered Wagon" and "Cavalcade" and containing much of the familiar rough-and-tumble formula, it nevertheless is raised far above the average by its success in recreating the atmosphere of the pioneer times and in peopling history with real and living characters...
...sheets set about burying him, although he is a director of the Baltimore Sunpapers and has been a member of the Sun staff for 31 years. Now a Sun editor for the first time, he bites off chunks of cigars and chews them with a new relish, slings his rough language around the Sun office and continues to be thoroughly sentimental about everything except the New Deal. At least twice a week he visits a friend at some hospital, each day answers every letter in his voluminous mail, including all the cranks...
...silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors and their tough-mug crews, backed by San Francisco financiers with "ideals and traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order, which the farmers execute by blasting a dam, washing out the mining crowd in one great, glistening, gold-tinted Technicolor flood...
Although the score might indicate a one-sided fixture, the Stubbsmen put up a great battle and at no time were they far behind. The last minute saw some rough play but the major portion of the game was cleanly played with only two penalties...
...tried four times to escape. The second time, he and eight companions got hold of an Indian dugout, headed into the Caribbean. When they ran into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...