Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Author Leane Zugsmith. Her fourth novel, The Reckoning, is a book of such competent maturity that it qualifies her automatically for a place in the second rank. In the regimental line her position is a little left of centre. Carolyn was a public-school teacher in a tough quarter of Manhattan. Intelligent, honest, fairly good at her racking job, she was engaged but not happy. Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together. Young Castie Petrella...
University--"Hl Neilie" A fast moving picture with capable performances by Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell; plenty of tough amusing dialogue. "Gallant Lady" The suffering of Miss Harding has become almost psychopathic...
...part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could...
...Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish green...
...Princeton game the Wednesday before, the Blue went on the ice a comparatively dead team, to fall before the onslaught of an inspired Cantab sextet. However, such a rest as the players are now taking, has had wonderful effect heretofore, and a rejuvenated outfit ought to give Harvard a tough time in the Garden tomorrow night...