Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tough cookies built this State-not cake-eaters. They had fire-in their bellies. The first job needed in this country is to put something in the bellies of its citizens-put some fire there...
...65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
Signing Off's underworld heroes, case-hardened but paunchy, resemble the sporting characters of Damon Runyan. wry, picturesque, sentimental. Author McIntyre's technique is to interrupt fits & starts of tough talk with fits & starts of windy anxiety over (in this case) the Roman Catholic Church...
...less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion, The Silver Magnet gives a better picture of capital in a foreign land than many an economic treatise on imperialism and absentee ownership...
...loans and its importance. REA's dynamo is Administrator John Michael Carmody, a Pennsylvanian who went to the New Deal as chief engineer for the Civil Works Administration, was one of the early members of the National Labor Relations Board. Thin-thatched, energetic Administrator Carmody can be tough on occasion, especially when he discovers that private utility companies have built "spite lines...