Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the redwoods 1,200 Bohemians (including Herbert Clark Hoover) & guests sat on rough-hewn logs for the first & last production of The Legend of Hani in one of the Grove's two open air theatres. While Composer Hadley conducted the orchestra through his own score, Bohemians heard Baritone John Charles Thomas of the Metropolitan Opera sing the title role...
...Lisbon scholarly Professor Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has been the ''Brain Trust" of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona for six years. The President, a rough cavalry general with an intuitive knack of nipping revolutions, calls his regime pleasantly a "Dictatorship without a Dictator." Last July the Professor, long Finance Minister, was promoted to Premier. Together he and President Carmona have issued many queer but wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted...
...London observers rioted Authoress Lowell's pink bloomers fluttering from the flag lanyard. Says Authoress Lowell: "Honest, I don't know who put them up there. . . ." The Record editor plastered Boston with pictures of his Gal Reporter, then sent her out in disguise on various rough assignments. She was seldom recognized. Twice she was in danger of having more than her disguise removed. Posing as a dancer looking for work, she allowed a white slaver to take her to his room where she was badly beaten, but refused to take her clothes off, and had the presence...
...great was the President's haste to put the code into operation that he did not wait for all its rough points to be smoothed out. Still to be settled, for instance, was the tough question of "stretch outs," the practice of making one mill worker tend a larger number of looms as an offset to higher pay. But President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will...
...pageant in a small town. For all the entertainment they give, Amazon's pictured here might do more than just swagger around and say "Oh Yeah" in chesty voices, and administer hefty slaps on hefty female backs. The farce is neither brilliantly conceived; nor delicately done, it is rough and masculine, making a vaudevile turn out of a fruitful theme...