Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of young men enlisted for the Spanish-American War, but young Henry Fletcher, a boy without a college education, a court reporter in his native Greencastle, Pa., got a place in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Private Fletcher did not return to Greencastle from the glories of San Juan Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation...
This news break mildly annoyed the King. Snug in a rambling rented country house in Surrey, he has been bickering by cable for weeks with Siamese Premier Bahol, the rough & ready General who won the Second Revolution which has not dethroned Prajadhipok. If only someone at Singapore, probably a cable relay clerk, had not blabbed, His Majesty might have continued for months or years in languid Siamese fashion to treat with his obstreperous Premier...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
...constructive statesman. Ambassador Davis called the London naval situation last week "difficult but far from hopeless.'' Though each of the Big Three had aired its views to the Press and made discreet private contacts they will not begin to negotiate officially until this week, will try to rough out a groundwork permitting France and Italy to join the London parleys by Christmas, with a view to calling the 1935 Naval Conference early next spring...
...close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some who have been left behind. Emmet is frozen to death. Though Celeste...