Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Getting Rough. Last week Hathorn told all, and seemed to enjoy doing it. "We Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White...
Hathorn testified that he refused to go along, even though Vaughan finally got "a little rough" and announced that "he could get my job." The subcommittee congratulated him heartily when he left the stand...
Nominations. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Iva Chance reported that her car had been damaged by a hit-&-run driver; Patrolman Robert Rough arrested Fleet Beers for speeding...
When the B.s shyly inquired about costs, Neutra made a rough guess that their house would come to $16,000 (it grew to $19,500, not including patio, garden and subsequent extras, but Neutra based his 10% fee on the lower figure...
...tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself, and 2) when it comes to acting, Miss Calvet, for all her diamantine Gallic glamour, is only a rhinestone in the rough...