Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the first period the referees shut their eyes to the fiercest kind of rough-&-tumble while Bostonians screeched their delight. In the second period Toronto's truculent "Red" Homer crashed into Boston's "Eddie" Shore, sent him sprawling against the boards. Shore picked himself up, skated straight into Toronto's "Ace" Bailey. When Bailey's head hit the ice, everyone in the Boston Garden could hear the thud. While Bailey's teammates carried him to the dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed...
...entirely possible for this reviewer to revive for the n'th time an appreciative artifical sentimentality or a chortling complacency, he must grant the editors of "The American Procession" due credit for skillful application of the diluted stimulus. The photographs, arranged in rough chronological order, are so selected as to probe the most various corners of subconscious memory. There is a full length profile of John L. Sullivan, arms limply extended, legs swathed in knee-buttoned tights, mustachios waxed and contemptuous, stomach distended,--for such was the masculine style. There is the "tennis girl of the eighties", racquet posed delicately...
...scientific apparatus, experiments, and the most recently discovered phenomena collected from all over the world. One piece of machinery, using a microscope camera, takes pictures of microbes whirling around on a disk at the rate of 20,000 revolutions per minute. It is used to study the effects of rough handling on marine animals...
...Bolshevik during Lenin's lifetime. Twenty-three times the twinhood of Lenin & Stalin in doctrine & action is reasserted, despite the well-known "Testament of Lenin" in which the Communist Party was expressly warned by Comrade Lenin not to accept as his successor Comrade Stalin "who is too rough" but to choose "another man who in all respects differs from Stalin, namely one more patient, more logical...
...fashion expert with a dazzling smile (Hope Williams). He is reduced to living off commissions from Paris stores to which he steers rich U. S. girls, finally resigns himself to the idea of marrying one. With laconic bitterness Hope Williams counters by encouraging a rich New York suburbanite. Between rough sentiment, brandies, wisecracks and spoofing their aching hearts, the two hand each other insults that stick. This warfare continues against an unwholesome Paris gallery of reporters, U. S. dress buyers, tennis champions, and one superb banjo-playing Southerner. In a final scene Keating and Williams disguise the fact that they...