Word: toughly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week...
...founded the 44-piece Business Men's Symphony Orchestra which gives about six concerts a year. He plays the bass viol and owns 28, keeping two handy in his office. But boxing, not music, is his real hobby. Now a sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club...
...deeply and sincerely admire his war record." Rapped back ''Wild Bill" Donovan, Republican nominee: "What we need now is not some very fine and very amiable man. What we need is someone a little rougher and who is not so sweet and amiable. This is a tough time...
Harvard coaches are looking forward to a tough game this weekend, when Brown returns to the Stadium for the first time in five years. Coach McLaughry of the Bruins has the best team in sight since the famous Brown "Iron Men" of 1926. The starting eleven against the Crimson averages about 185 pounds, thus conceding Harvard little in the way of tonnage. Bob Chase, 162-pound left half-back, is the man around whom practically the whole Bruin attack, both passing and running, is built; and so far he and his teammates have maintained an undefeated record...
...reports, practically played under wraps when making their 11-0 victory over Tufts last Saturday, and with one of their best teams in years are pointing straight for the coming battle with Harvard. Army, after its 20-0 walkover at the expense of Yale, should prove fully as tough an opponent as last year