Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...
...Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon both sides, fought out, in our books, our magazines, and our newspapers, a fine, rough-and-tumble game which we high-heartedly called a literary movement...
...teaches in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Youngest son was Stephen, an asthmatic little fellow on whom the children of other professors picked most, thereby provoking Philosopher Royce to write six-page letters of protest to their parents. Little Stephen grew broad and strong, turned into a rough & tumble mining engineer...
...Respondent Unknown (By Mildred Harris & Harold Goldman; MacKenna, Mielziner & Mayer, Producers). Title role in this conjugal rough-&-tumble is played by Peggy Conklin, the extremely pretty brunette who was bundled into dramatic fame in The Pursuit of Happiness (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933). Last year she was the pert daughter of the Arizona quick-lunch proprietor in The Petrified Forest. In Co-Respondent Unknown Actress Conklin again appears as a gamine whose innocence about sex is equaled only by her curiosity...
...London's tough district of Camberwell last week the new parish hall of St. Giles was ready for rough & tumble political debate. Proudly the vicar, a great believer in upholding the British right of free speech, displayed his invention for cooling off hot hecklers who hurl unparliamentary epithets and at times even paving stones at speakers in St. Giles. The invention is a working fire hydrant installed on the platform with a short length of hose and gleaming brass nozzle convenient to the elbow of the speaker. All windows of the new parish hall are of non-splinterable glass...