Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...
...toughest fights of the afternoon were staged between Pete Illman and his Tufts opponent, Lewis Loring, in the 155 pound class, and between Don Lowry and Ralph Sherry of Tufts in the 175 pound class...
...away the toughest airplane pilots on the North American continent are the rakehell Canuck airmen who since the '20s have lugged machinery and prospectors, food and engineers into the vast country north of Canada's twin transcontinental railroads. But Canadian airmen have had no counterpart in Canadian airplanes. During World War I Canada built 2,500 warplanes, but last year she built only 282 machines for a gross of $4,001,622, most of them U. S. models built under license (Lockheeds, Grummans, Piper Cubs). Next year it may be different...
...march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
Lacking the courage to stay away, he goes to all his openings (arriving with the ushers) and suffers through them. He hates first-night audiences-the swishiest and toughest gang in the world-and usually hangs backstage, "so I don't have to look at all those bastards out front." He is in a constant dither that his show will flop. After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril...