Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME OUT made his annual pilgrimage to New Haven on Saturday to see the Elis and the Big Green mix it up in the Bowl. The game, as may well be imagined from the scoreless result, was a rough and tough one with both teams letting out just about all they had in an effort to come through. Dartmouth came closer to succeeding, but even at that Yale, with Booth in action, cannot be said to be very far from a score no matter where the ball is. The little Elis' dancing dervish is never safe until after the whistle...
...enjoyed having him come. He was simple, quiet, sincere and earnest, and we all liked him. I remember once asking him to have evening dinner with us and serving him a huckleberry pie which I had made myself and which could not be cut. the crust was so tough. You see, I was a bride that year, and pie was a new venture to me. I was not embarrassed about it. Mr. Ford seemed to enjoy...
This One Man. Marvin and Saul Holland were brothers and burglars. Marvin was weak, tender, soulful. Saul was strong, crude, tough. Marvin saw that if Saul had his characteristics he (Saul) would be an extraordinary person, more particularly a better husband to his wife. So one night when Marvin and a friend were cracking a safe, Marvin shot and killed the master of the house. Executed in the electric chair, Marvin somehow managed to transfer his soul to Saul, who thereupon became possessed not only of strength but of sensibilities...
Pecos Bill, who roamed the Southwest. Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt...
...comedy is furnished chiefly by Willie Howard, a pathetic-looking Levantine, who, having driven Mr. Kearns out West in his taxicab, is elected sheriff and spends most of his time disguised as an Indian to elude the tough hombres...