Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graphic splashed a composite photograph, representing Harry Thaw trying to strangle a young woman, across its cover; and printed a picture of an apartment house with the caption: "Where Harry Got Rough...
...tropical countries. They seem to think they are swarming with poisonous snakes and vicious insects. All one has to do is use common sense," continued Dr. Allen. "It was however quite difficult to get around. We had to do all our travelling on foot over the narrow rough paths which wind through the dense tropical forests. There are little villages mere clusters of straw huts scattered throughout the interior of Liberia. Our native porters did not want to leave their own villages too far behind so we had to hire a different set of servants at almost every town...
...Capital. It was the Shoreham Hotel, a landmark. Vice Presidents lived at the Shoreham. Presidents waiting for the White House to be evacuated or renovated, stopped at the Shoreham. Diplomats dined and champagne bottles popped, even after Prohibition, at the Shoreham. . . . Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings, pull it down to make way for an office building. Washington's proudest hotels these days are the New Willard, the Wardman Park...
...charges against Princeton of "dirty" football made against the teams from 1919 to 1926 inclusive by Wynant D. Hubbard is not only that Harvard players were injured by rough play in violation of the rules, but also that it was the deliberate policy of Princeton coaching to cripple "pivotal" players. The former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted...
...ever the Princeton players were unnecessarily rough the time to protest was when the offense occurred, as West Point did last year after a game with Syracuse when several of the cadets were disabled. No one thought the less of the Academy for speaking out, rather than nurse a grievance. One may be sure that if Harvard had won her games with Princeton, nothing would have been heard of "dirty" football. In the irritation that was inflamed by several defeats, rough play became distorted by some into foul play and suspicion into charges which the Harvard men have been quick...