Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jail. Ten freshmen of Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., fled to a jail rather than submit to further rough initiations at the hands of members of the Tau Kappa Tau fraternity. They played cards, sang songs, ate food supplied by the father of one of them. Big TKT men promised "action" when the freshmen left jail...
COQUETTE-Helen Hayes weeps the most truthful tears in town over a rough lover whom her father shot to death (TIME...
Upstairs, in the arena of Madison Square Garden, the scene was less hectic. A scattering of smart people sat in boxes or strolled about; other people, haggard, dirty, inarticulate, led their dogs about on leashes. The centre of the large oval arena had been squared off, floored with rough green carpet, spotted here and there with dark, irregular circles. Into this place, people brought their dogs to be examined by the judges. It was for the judges, prodding the sparse flesh upon a terrier's bones or stroking the pursed silky ear of a beagle, to decide how each...
John Markle, famed coal king, multimillionaire, purchased the largest apartment in the world. Located in Manhattan, it will include 41 rooms, 16 baths, John Markle, servants, and many pieces of old, expensive furniture. Famed for his manners and mustache, both rough and blunt, Mr. Markle once said that he was successful in finance because "I'd rather fight than eat." Asked what he planned to do with his 41 rooms, Mr. Markle replied: "It's nobody's damn business...
Headmaster Stearns of Andover: ". . . Certainly he indulges far less in the pranks or 'rough stuff' which were somewhat commonplace among the earlier generation...