Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
Quoting from Mr. Agassiz: "What the world most needs today is the wisdom to apply its knowledge wisely; in the sane realization and full acceptance of the fact that Nature is 'a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them...
Although the squad will be drilled as though there were no spectators present, a varied program has been arranged. There will be no rough contact, however, since this will be only the third day of practice when muscles are going through their sorest and stiffest transitions. With the added incentive to hard and spectacular playing of a stadium full and spectators there would be a strong likelihood of injuries were a scrimmage attempted...
...became a Hollywood cinemactor, had a bit part as recently as 1934 as head jailer in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures at $25 apiece on "Indian health methods," consisting of simple living, daily exercises, rough foods. He recommends one cigar in three months, Mojave tea with red honey, raw eggs in grape juice. When he took five reels of photographs of Indian tribal ceremonies in the Hollywood Bowl, William Loane West, whose two grandfathers were full blooded Indians, became an "honorary" chief. From his platform...
Nevertheless, said Harvardman Lewis Gannett, Class of 1913 and book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune: "A rough check of my own class disclosed a surprisingly close parallel. . . . Can it be that the rise of the father, in American life, tends to mean the decline...