Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result would be more soothing but also less realistic...
...spite of the stiff breeze and the occasional cakes of ice which still remain in the river, shells were launched yesterday for the first time this year from Newell Boat House by the University oarsmen. Because of the wind, which made the water unusually rough and the going hard, only the first few crews out were taken far. Even so the men were well soaked by he icy water and the heavy clothes which are requisites of the early season proved a wise precaution...
...midnight before. Off the coast of Brazil the South Atlantic looked angry. The seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next day Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then Rio de Janiero. Back over the ocean, in Italy, an excitable press and populace rejoiced that a Fascist, "a messenger of Italianity," had duplicated the feat first performed...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
...culprits that ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them only if they were to stay 10 days. The judge had lights arranged and examined 133 rough necks, 266 trouser pockets. Those with dirty necks and no money for a bath, he sent to the workhouse. Others he freed. Historians recalled that not 100 years ago there were laws against owning bathtubs but no laws against taking a drink...