Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accurately titled. Reserve in the directing and natural, finished acting, commend it to above-the-average cinemaddicts. Pop Lane and his daughter Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) live in a construction camp. As pop is dying from injuries received in a dynamite blast, he warns his daughter that life is '"tough," tells her always to "take it on the chin." Kitty spends the remainder of the picture having a good time doing so. She moves from construction camp to college campus, waits on table in a ''hamburger joint" run by her aunt (Zasu Pitts). The love which a personable...
...McCRAY Cleveland, Ohio The banker is Henry B. Peters. His bank: Fairfield National of Lancaster, Ohio. The slugger whom Banker Peters recognized in TIME (April 6, 1931) was tough Fred Burke, now imprisoned for life in Michigan...
...genuinely exciting last act, he defends himself before the bar of the Senate in a trial conducted by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, whose judicial behavior is a good shade in favor of Lincoln. It takes 19 votes to save the President, and your scalp is in deed a tough one if it fails to tingle when the deciding vote is about to be cast. High praise goes to Playwright Good man, whose piece won a little theatre tournament last year, for an ably conceived and ably executed feat of historical imagination. Praise too is due a cast which...
...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...
June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...