Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cares, piously to pass the Jewish time of self-examination. God was balancing His books, which would be closed on the Day of Atonement. But in the teeming lower East Side one family sat in sorrow. They slit their garments. No chair or sofa would they sit on: only rough boxes. They were "sitting shivah"-mourning a dead daughter...
...high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After he had made Phi Beta Kappa and had graduated summa cum laude...
...State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated and elected Governor last year in a rough & tumble campaign in which a prime issue was the number of bathrooms in his large and ornate home overlooking Trinity...
...years Folke roamed the countryside on horseback, looking for the boy. After 24 years, as he was dying, he found his grandson well and happy, serving as the King's secretary. The Milles Folke Filbyter grips a weary horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways to avoid rough going in the road, is balanced by the figure of Folke, who leans outward and downward, searching the road in another direction. There is a tragic bend and twist and movement to the piece seldom found in an equestrian statue...
...dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer Typhoon, mistaking the headlights of cars for harbor lights, had run aground on the ocean shore across the Cape from...