Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time & again Peru's Congress has hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
...along, I'll pay you when I'm released" (from the Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N. Y.). Last week Dr. Jelliffe, 66, sued free & sane Mr. Thaw, 61, for $10,000 back fees. Said U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe: "Doctor, you are in a tough spot. I would like to see you get your money. But the cause of action is plainly outlawed...
Ruth Chatterton's tough, hangdog look, her husky refined drawl ending on a raised note, go well with the foreverandever emotions, too poignant for tears, as one gentleman to another. She can say: "I love you more than anything on earth" and sound as though she might mean it. She can say: "Please kiss me into needing you" without making the customers scowl. George Brent's underacting goes well with Miss Chatterton's. He is shown as a white man because he will not marry an unmarried girl with money, but cinemorality impels him to want...
Dummy Gilman: "Times are tough; $15 is a lot to get together at once...
...sturdy, cannibalistic, pugnacious. They will stand on their hind claws, lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed...