Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistake to believe that clicking the heels is the only proper deportment or that the man begins with the manual of arms. The well-known rough but hearty tone is not everywhere in place, especially in the company of women. There is no reason to feel that one is at all times in high boots, even when one is wearing laced shoes...
...sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining property option, and mining stock of value undetermined...
Newspapers-Twenty-three daily papers folded last year and the 2,084 remaining squeezed by with a 2% gain over 1936. However, the $595,000,000 spent for newspaper advertising is still the elephant's helping of the $928,000,000 rough total (excluding weekly newspapers) of tallied advertising...
...disciplined but unfettered band play on a phonograph or the radio, they tap their feet. When they listen to him from a dance floor, they shake all over. When they listen to him while sitting in large numbers in an auditorium, they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last Sunday night...
...question, which higher brows than Chase's had dubbed semantics, is: What is the connection between words and reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...