Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankie and Johnnie" to "Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage," a clever cast mocks the dramatic genre of two generations ago in a superbly entertaining gem of burlesque. The play contains all the legendary characters of the old-time thriller, from the farmer's daughter to the Bowery tough, and all the legendary lines from the villain's "Curses! Foiled again!" to the heroine's "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine." Francis G. Cleveland, Wesley Boynton, Edward Massey, and Sally Fitzpatrick, perfectly attuned to their parts, carry the play to the topmost heights of burlesque. If affords...
Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
...Born in Portage, Wis., she left home, like other small-town girls, to go to college (University of Wisconsin), to get a job (newspaper work) in the big city (Milwaukee, then Manhattan). In Manhattan, as a "fragile, flowerlike, feminine" reporter on the late great World, she filled every tough assignment given her, found time for a daily letter to her mother, for her own writing on the side. After three years of it she went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When she married, about five years ago, she took a Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker...
...getting champion of this basic principle of world recovery, President-elect Fraser faces a battling, buffeting year, will need all the stamina packed into his tough, square-shouldered frame. Typical of direct, common-sense Fraser methods was the Bank's settlement last week of the issue of "double taxation" with the City of Basle. Radical aldermen have demanded that the city pry into the private income of each employe of the Bank (already taxed in his home country) and tax it again in Basle. The Bank retorted by offering the city a lump sum payment of 50,000 Swiss...
...year. He worked in a field outside Paris because his figure, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base, was too big to get in any studio. It was the coldest winter France had known for half a century. Sculptor Bufano broke scores of tools on the tough granite before he found a special U. S. steel tool that would last nearly a fortnight. Finally his St. Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under the arms...