Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days before the fight, ominous words came from Servo's camp. Cried Servo's manager Al ("The Vest") Weill: "My boy can't breat' t'rough the right side of his nose; he ain't gonna fight no Robinson. . . ." The official explanation: Servo had been biffed by a sparring partner...
Like millions of other Americans, he had suffered as he would not have done at home. His return voyage in rough weather got him down with seasickness. Also, for the sake of his party of friends, he had put up with something for which he had little enthusiasm-fishing. He caught a few bonitos, red hind and barberfish (red with blue dots), but he made his political advisers wince by frankly saying that he was no devotee of rod & reel...
...from his office, drove wordlessly up Fifth Avenue to Tiffany's, demanded that a clerk show him a $150,000 necklace. Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings) in 1941 because Hill demanded too much service...
...Lafayette, Colo., a thin, recently tuberculous young doctor from Pennsylvania hung up his shingle above the general store one day in December, 1900. Lafayette (pop. 900) was a rough-&-ready coal-mining town. Dr. Victor Welsh Porter gave it rough-&-ready medicine...
...Years Before the Mast (Paramount), based on Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s semi-classic, is no more unfaithful to its original than most screen adaptions. Taken as plain fiction, Two Years Before the Mast is a good, rough sea story. Taken as Paramount presents it-as a faithful Dana report of the U.S. merchant seaman's lot a century ago-it sounds and looks like a job of rewriting by one of the more fanatical members of the National Maritime Union...