Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is no genuine working class movement," said Sir Charles. "They don't go around throwing stones at policemen. It is the Communists who have gone to work among them. . . . We know many of the tough customers and unfortunately they have got at the decent poor...
...Chicago to help settle his late wife's estate (daughter of the late Marshall Field, she left him and their two sons $1,000,000 each). Admiral David Beatty, Earl Beatty called at police headquarters seeking"excitement" Taken on a radio patrol car tour of the tough South Side, he heard the report of a shooting, arrived on the scene too late for action...
When Benny Leonard retired as lightweight champion of the world in 1924. only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could...
...Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this before election, with the Senator being one of their big shots. You can see from this that I'm not a friend of the Administration, but I will say I'm a friend of Senator Davis. It's tough for the Senator to have to defend himself for doing things for widows and orphans...
...truth." What followed in type was a political speech of the kind which only Democrat Smith can make. Through every line of it could be heard the sharp twang of his voice. It was packed with his public mannerisms, salty with his unpolished rhetoric. He spoke of the "tough winter" ahead. He made a forceful verb out of "gold-brick." Democrats searched the editorial in vain for some reference to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Editor Smith was primed to talk about anything & everything connected with the 1932 campaign except the man his party nominated against his wishes at Chicago. The nearest...