Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain, in accord with Anthony Eden's dictum to act tough, has lately adopted the Fascist strategy of muscle-making. Most effective display of bulging biceps was the dispatch of hundreds of bombers on nonstop trips to distant French destinations, flights which more than equaled the mileage to Berlin-as British newspapers were careful to point out. Responsible for the flights to France was Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, head of the Bomber Command. Tall, spare, methodical, he is a practiced muscle flexer, for he has commanded the R. A. F. in Iraq and India...
Badoglio. Paris gossip also had it that Chief of General Staff Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's most gifted strategist (who was surprisingly absent from the maneuvers), had won another victory. The tough-minded Marshal, who salvaged the Ethiopian campaign after it had bogged down, and who talks back to Il Duce, was reported to think no more of Blitzkrieg than of many another red-hot Fascist notion...
Fritz Mannheimer was typical of Europe's post-War financiers-too ambitious to be dismayed by the wreckage that demoralized older economists, too tough to be rebuffed by the snubs and cuts of a decaying financial aristocracy, slippery enough to make his way through the crevices that appeared as the social structure cracked under war strain. Adroit to the end, he died before his bank closed its doors...
...Montessori opened her first Casa del Bambini in Rome. Twelve years earlier she had been hooted and jeered there as the first woman ever to receive the University of Rome's M.D. In the 33 years since she began practicing her revolutionary theories of child education on the tough sons & daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed...
Back of this curt announcement last week was a story that had kept Syracuse newspapermen in the jitters for months. Liquidating wherever they could, the tough businessmen who run the Hearst empire had let it be known that the profitable Journal and American could be bought. Six weeks ago Harvey Burrill's son, Louis, who succeeded him as publisher, could have had it for $750,000. While he dickered, a stranger went to Syracuse...