Word: tough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of '83, who attended the Globe in a body last Monday, seem to believe that they have obtained the enviable name of "hard men," by their antics during the performance, they should at once be informed that no upper classman regarded their conduct as at all "tough" or "manly." On the contrary, it was considered extremely "soft" and "childish." To say, however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed...
FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...
STUDENT. You're right there. Why, I do nothing but feed and be tough, and that's about all the rest of the fellows do. (Fact...
SPARRING.We remind any one who really means business in the coming Sparring contests in the Gymnasium that he will, especially if in the Heavy Weights, have to meet some tough customers, and the sooner he gives up smoking, and the quicker he takes to dumb-bells and regular running exercise, the more likely will he be to do himself justice, and make his work interesting to lookers...
...pleasant," I said to myself, as I looked down upon the scene below. "I think I can give up tough dinde aux truffes for this beef, which must be good judging from the way in which that classmate of mine is devouring it. There is a charm in a hall like this; and the worthies who look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass...