Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copper company selling abroad independently would have no trouble underselling Copper Exporters. Last week, in expectation of a rough-&-tumble fight, sellers deluged the copper market, buyers withdrew. The result was a new low of 6¼?. Hence the alarm of Katanga, great proponent of sales pools; hence Katanga's hope-that their acceptance of curtailment would send Phelps Dodge back to the fold...
...long as Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter...
...ready a student may be in grasping medical facts, no matter how skillful with the scalpel, he may and often does lack any feeling for the sociological side of his practice, any bent for an old-fashioned understanding of human nature. The old family doctor was a bit rough-and-ready in his obstetrics when he raced with the stork along snowy roads in a one-horse shay, but he knew something that the modern vintage of physicians too often forgets. Like the great Sir William Osler, he knew that a doctor's ministration is not confined to medicine. Although...
POWER AND GLORY, The Life of Boies Penrose - Walter Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...
...lineup of the Blue team, composed mainly of ice hockey stars, was as follows: Winter, Iglehart, Bostwick, Wilmording, Phipps, Clarke, Gambel, Knott, and Smith. Although not particularly rough, the contest was marked by a number of hard falls...