Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
Last of the trio is the much be-generalized Beethoven, to whom the name "Titan" was long ago accorded. An aura of worship clings about this tough Rhinelander who transformed the intolerable affliction of his deafness into mighty music. His impossible pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material...
...zeniths and his nadirs. When still a youngster he helped steal cattle on the quiet and once served a penitentiary sentence therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior officers were persuaded he knew...
...Santa Cruz mountains he breeds hounds and recently burbanked a new vegetable, a combination of green pepper and tomato which his wife, Lilyan Tash- man, named "topepo." He plays good golf, dislikes radio, is fond of wearing yellow gloves, goes to church every Sunday. His best part was the tough top-sergeant in What Price Glory. Other pictures: The Silent Command, The Fool, The Cock Eyed World, Through Different Eyes...
After two years of talk, delay, and a series of bouts that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner...