Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have an opportunity to tear up any goal posts, considered tearing up the team (see p. 52) after it had lost, 19 to 7, to Lehigh. Princeton's 150-lb. team was soundly thrashed by some Choate schoolboys, 46 to o. Florida, heavily penalized for unneces- sary roughness in the second quarter, took an unnecessarily rough beating from Ala bama, 41 to o. The Hill School, drilled by Princeton's longtime coach, Councilman William Winton ("Bill") Roper, ran up five touch downs in the second half to beat Gilman. 32 to o. Tulsa beat Mexico City...
...also edits Delacorte's Film Fun, did not seem to warrant the hullabaloo which it caused. As a caricature of the cinema and of cloying movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...
...Roof. The English theatre can be as sentimental as it can be grim. In this play, sentimental John Galsworthy, assisted by sentimental Producer Charles Hopkins, has demonstrated an overwhelming faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman...
Because of weather conditions the water on the basin was too rough for boating and the race had to be rowed on the three-quarter mile upstream course. The stiff breeze with which the oarsmen had to contend was responsible for the comparatively slow time of the winner. Codman was rowing for the Union Boat Club of Boston and Stuart for the Cambridge Boat Club...
...theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...