Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...
...bleak night last December eight men flying north from Charleston, S. C. were strapped in their seats in an Eastern Air Lines transport, undisturbed by the rough air because their pilot was famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger...
Artist Duncan, who lives in San Francisco, is far from unknown to western advertisers. A director of the potent McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, he is a strict office disciplinarian, a busy executive, and though he has finished no commercial drawings for 20 years, he still makes layouts and rough sketches for Del Monte Peaches and Standard Oil of California. For five years he served with Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco Art Commission, has exhibited frequently in West Coast shows...
...blazing and spitting. Around it are seated a group of knights, with their swords still at their sides in a manner improper for a banquet. In their center, holding a silver goblet of wine in his hand is His Majesty, King Henry II of England. He is a rough, squarely-built man, with a red face attached to the rest of his body by a neck that resembles that of a bull. His eyes are large, and tonight a veritable fire seems to come from them. As he begins to speak, in a loud, rough voice, the lords and ladies...
...This rough & ready background stood Harold Fowler in good stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which...