Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...throw their mangled remains into the sea; in addition to this, the Russians have given out specific estimates of the number of troops and airplanes which they have in the Far East, thus violating that essential point of military strategy, secrecy. All this bellicose public shouting by the Kremlin tough boys shows, I think, a certain pathological state of fear, a sort of whistling in the dark psychology. If the Soviets were as cocksure as they claim to be, they would not be spending such a considerable portion of their waking hours proclaiming their own invincibility; nor would they allow...
...YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots...
Clyde Beatty cannot afford to let one of his animals get the idea that it is tough, that it can bully other performers. At that night's circus performance Sammy charged him, knocked him down. Next morning Trainer Beatty rounded up four brothers, Leo, Brutus, Nero Jr., King, oldest and toughest lions in his troupe. He drove them into the arena, prodded them to fury. Then he sent Sammy in. Sammy, still feeling tough, made a pass at Leo. The brothers closed in. That night Sammy, licking a dozen bites and scratches, was the meekest animal...