Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the War Department nearly 18 years to decide that Hero Parker's heroics rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials...
...stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...
Optimism was in the air on Soldiers Field as the track team finished its final practice for the Heptagonal Meet. Nobody wants to be quoted, but everyone feels "It's going to be a tough meet, but we'll win." Cornell is the most powerful contender for the title now held by Harvard...
That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported...
MORNING OF LIFE-Kristmann Gudmundsson-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Hardbitten, cold-climated tale of love, hate and a tough winter; by an Icelandic author who has been translated into a dozen languages...