Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when he bumped into the late Bartender Tammen and was persuaded that Denver was ripe for a killing...
...serious problem confronts the Catalogue Department, it appears, in connection with the crowded trays in the official catalogue. Many of the drawers are now so packed with cards, that one can consult them only with considerable difficulty and the cards themselves suffer from the rough treatment they necessarily receive. A large case of card trays will have to be added in the immediate future, probably to be placed in the corridor outside the catalogue room...
...funniest sequence in Private Lives was the rough-and-tumble finale of Act II in which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously...
...rough, crude, unbridled force, Huey Long is more than a windy showman of the Tom Heflin breed who bows to party control. He is persistent. He is quick-witted. He is unscrupulous. For a year he has been in open revolt against the Robinson-Glass-Harrison leadership of his party. He envisages himself as the captain of the next Senate, with a radical economic program to put through. He is for President Roosevelt only so long as President Roosevelt is for him. His tactics last week drove a big wedge deep into his party and left President Roosevelt the tough...
...much ever happens in Chamberlain, especially since old (90 years) Charles Morey Lockwood left for the Soldiers' Home at Minneapolis, Minn. where he could find some "rough, tough pinochle players." He believes himself the last northwesterner alive who ran away from the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). On the anniversary he tipples from a bottle of burgundy kept in a bank safe...