Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...
Chief function of the tutoring schools is to prepare students for Harvard's tough written examinations (which largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses...
...judging racial differences, laymen are likely to be unduly influenced by styles in clothing, hair and beards. He prints a picture of Neanderthal Man as he might look with a haircut, clean shave and modern clothes (see cut, p. 51), showing that he might get by today on the tough side of town without attracting attention as an oddity...
...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
Sued for Divorce. Gladys Dubois Armstrong, Hollywood song writer; by Robert Armstrong, 42, cinema tough-guy; in Hollywood. Grounds: mental cruelty and his wife's insistence that they live in Mexico...