Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointing Senator Vandenberg, Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan stressed the advantage of youth as a qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...
Photographs of Sosthenes Behn are not easily had. But anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection...
...line-up of the four crews that braved the rough weather conditions was as follows...
...four University crews will venture on the rough water of the Charles River Basin at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the first full distance race of the spring. Weather permitting, Coach E. J. Brown '96 plans to settle today the question of supremacy among the recently rearranged A, B, C, and D crews by a regulation mile and three quarters test. The starting point for the crews will be determined by the direction and force of the wind. If the Basin proves unnavigable, the four eights will be launched upstream for short practice brushes...
...survive the completely hopeless first act or arrive happily late. "Behold the Bridegroom" is a good evening's investment. The rough points are hard to stomach, but there may quite possibly be the fundamentals of a great play in the rest...