Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named a date for a plebiscite on Monarchy v. Republic, time & again postponed it. Last week a few surviving republicans and at least two monarchist cliques were preparing coups d'état suitable to a poor, intrigue-ridden nation on the end of the Balkan peninsula, when tough, fierce-eyed, mustachioed War Minister George ("Little Corporal") Kondylis beat them to the draw...
...standout in the Harvard backfield is Larry Boston, 190-pound triple threat, who should prove a tough problem for the Worcesterites to solve. Guarding the center of the line will be 185-pound Jim Fearon, who has been promoted to the starting lineup. Otherwise the team is composed of experienced players...
...prison for another misdeed. There is the judge (Richard Bennett), out of his wits with brooding upon the injustice he fears has been done. There is Garth, who saw the robbery committed and might have saved the condemned man had he but spoken. There is the radical's tough and tortured young son Mio (Burgess Meredith), relentlessly set upon clearing his father's name...
...performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast-cooling lava fragments or by applying "heat-resisting chemicals" to the soles. Some primitives who specialize in firewalking have enormously thick, tough soles which provide at least partial protection...
Serving as a private during the War, he was assigned to latrine duty, acquired a lasting distaste for the Army. Demobilized, he sold newspaper advertising, drifted into publishing, which he calls ''a gamble . . . tougher than any poker game I ever sat in and I have played in some tough ones, too." He established the American in Panama City in 1925, likes to boast that it is the only newspaper with a faro and roulette outfit among its assets...