Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Larry Gaines. a splayfooted, rough-kneed, lazy blackamoor pugilist: a Leicester, England fight against Phil Scott, famed British heavyweight who had been training for four months, got knocked out in the second round...
...amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure conduct, he pulls a revolver, threatens to "let this hell stick start spitting all over the place." Unexpected Husband is inoffensively rough-&-tumble diversion...
From within the aluminum ball two men peered through port windows at the endless blue vacancy about them. The taller of the two, gawky, long-haired, bespectacled, clad in rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were...
...People now realize that the President has been the most stable force in U. S. business. He has stood pat. . . . The tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression. The boat rockers have succeeded in getting about everybody's feet wet but the President has seen to it that they haven't capsized the ship...
...orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...