Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
...Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
Harden your heart until it's tough as flint...
WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard...
Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...