Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
Died. Theodore August Metz, 87, violinist, minstrel, self-styled Father of the Jazz Era (see p. 30), composer of A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, which spurred Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War; in The Bronx...
Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. Allred was leaving the Pasadena, Calif., Rose Bowl (see p. 43) when he received a telegram from Secretary of the Texas Senate Robert ("Bob") Barker stating that Acting Governor Wilbourne Collie had called a special session of the legislature. Indignant, Governor Allred summoned a police escort to get through the football crowd, fumed when traffic blocked his car, clambered on the back of a motorcycle, fumed when traffic blocked the motorcycle, hopped off, hurried on foot to his hotel. While packing to board a plane, he learned that the Secretary of the Senate...
...newly elected captain, Austie Harding of Noble and Greenough fame, the Harvard Freshman hockey team ran rough shod over the Newton High School sextet 10-2 at the Garden yesterday afternoon. Five goals, three of them in the last minute, were rung up by the Yardlings during the second frame...
...Mutiny on the Bounty" is one of those elemental pictures of drama in the rough. It is a staggering mixture of salt water, cruelty, agony, privation, and heroism, and it leaves the audience pleasantly exhausted. It is enriched but not softened by glimpses of tropical love and languorous Tahitian beauties...