Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which...
Author H. W. Freeman, 31, is an Oxford man, but worked on the land for two years after "going down." Says he: "I do not claim any further knowledge of farming than that of a rough general farm hand (i. e., neither cowman nor horseman)." His first book, best-seller Joseph and His Brethren, took five months to write. Down in the Valley was written in Italy last winter...
...Rough and Tumble Game...
...rough and bloody melee that left more than one stain on the Garden ice, with 17 penalties in all being dealt out by the referees. Harvard took ten of them and besides being short on temper also seemed short on wind. Coach Stubb's charges were obviously out of condition after the long midyear lay off but Marquette might have beaten them at any time. The Crimson found the Hilltoppers a hard working team...
...game started in a rough and tumble manner with both sides displaying plenty of fight and spirit. Batchelder dumped the puck in on a pass from Stubbs from almost behind the cage before both sides settled down to play ordinary hockey. With the period half gone Furlong skated down from nowhere and lifted an easy shot into the net that caught Ellis napping...