Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only tough old John Quincy Adams had gone out of the Presidency so thoroughly unpopular. Hoover had labored mightily, with a stubborn and inflexible conviction in the Tightness of his course, only to see his work go down in public ruin. And no U. S. politician except Adams, calmly stepping back to the House of Representatives to make his experience count, had recovered in political or human terms from the consequences of such a defeat...
...least of all himself, need have been surprised that Maury was in trouble. Politics is a tough business, and Bexar County is no Sunday school. When Maury Maverick got licked for re-election to Congress, he started to come back by getting himself elected Mayor of San Antonio. In his campaign he promised a general clean-up of the city. When he was elected, he started to make good his promise. Result: obvious to any freshman in political chemistry...
...different degrees. . . "Here Lies" by Dorothy Parker reassembles most of her old stories and adds a few. Our Mrs. Parker may not seem quite so startling as she did in the dear dead days, but her stories still pack an impressive punch. . . . John O'Hara has some more tough stories in "Files On Parade" many of them good, although one can't help but feel that he is capable of better than he has been giving us. . . "Sailor off the Bremen," by Irwin Shaw, is a collection of twenty stories by a young writer who started with "Bury the Dead...
...Branaby accords his five a better chance than expected. Graduation robbed him of four of his top six performers of a year ago, but the ranking players are developing so rapidly that he gives them a chance. to extend their favored rivals tomorrow. The Barhabymen started slowly in the tough league competition but in their last two starts have registered 4 to 1 wins over the Newton Y. M. C. A. and the Newton Tennis and Racquets Club...
...measure if they were in shape, and Bruce Richardson would overpower them all if he could descend to their ranks from his regular 145 class--another stiff reducing job. Dick Thomas. Sophomore scissors expert extraordinary, exponent of the crucifix, Oklahoma ride, etc., will prove to be a mighty tough customer for all comers at 145 pounds...