Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynching" presumably derives from Col. Charles Lynch (1736-96) who dispensed rough & ready justice in Virginia. "Rolphing" derives from a California Governor who, before mob violence at San Jose, declared. "I wish the sheriff would close his eyes." Hereafter in TIME, "rolphing" shall apply only to official complacency toward "lynching...
...case against rough-&-tumble professional hockey which nearly resulted in the death of Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey (TIME, Dec. 25) was peacefully resolved last week in Boston when Bailey was pronounced definitely out of danger. Though he may never again play hockey, he was able to sit up in bed, chat with newshawks, emphatically absolve "Eddie" Shore of the Boston Bruins who had tumbled him upon the ice. Said he: "I didn't see Eddie and he didn't see me and we crashed and that...
...barrier for the third race at Epsom Downs one day last week, every eye of the shivering crowd was on Out Bound and the peanut-sized figure astride him. Jockey Jack Westrope, a 16-year-old apprentice, had already ridden 299 winners in 1933. A five-day suspension for rough-riding had just expired. Now he was out to win his 300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races of the day Jockey Westrope's mounts...
...Then he mounted a chestnut filly named Miss Tulsa. Another horse named Fortunate Youth forced her wide at the turn, forged ahead. Jockey Westrope lifted Miss Tulsa into the lead again, but she was spent, finished fourth. Next day the Epsom Downs stewards suspended Westrope for five days for rough riding. That left him three racing days in which to score his 300th victory...
When strikers picketed a New Haven foundry last fortnight, a Yale senior named Lawrence Hill marched down to help. As secretary of Yale's chapter of the pinko National Student's League, Picketer Hill was putting his social idealism into rough & tumble practice. For his pains a policeman named Enright thwacked Yaleman Hill on the head, arrested...