Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rough-housing on a train--not even a special train but one shared by other passengers is no proof of superiority in brains or in courtesy. It yields no evidence that the young participants are any better than the most ordinary hoodlums. Boston Traveler
Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
...fitness for presentation. Sergeant Odell, when interviewed by the CRIMSON reporter, said he had no remarks to make, but it was seen that he had been taking detailed notes. Sergeant Presho was unwilling to make any official statement, but intimated that the play was a little bit rough--it could be smoothed over in places...
...fourth gift dating from the eighteenth century is a manuscript roll from Tun Huang, a province of Kansu, China, which bears a Chinese Buddhist text on the obverse and rough draughts of state documents in ancient Tibetan and in the Iranian language of Khotan on the reverse side...
Beyond that, he distinguished himself at West Point by slovenliness of person, mediocrity of scholarship, hatred of firearms, and a certain girlish squeamishness of profanity and rough jokes. His femininity was emphasized by a callow appearance-indeed, during leisure hours of the Mexican War, Grant took the part, in amateur theatricals, of Desdemona, no less...