Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...badly wrenched shoulder, George Lowman will probably be unable to start in his forward position on the Varsity basketball team, when the Crimson faces the tough Quaker quintet Saturday at Philadelphia, it was learned yesterday...
...forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked under by the sluiced silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors and their tough-mug crews, backed by San Francisco financiers with "ideals and traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order...
...nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough, are the chief virtues of this lively, highly amusing comedy by Edward Caulfield...
...companion piece Jackie Cooper returns to us as "Boy of the Streets," the leader of one of those gangs of tough children which are springing up in increasing numbers in our larger cities. He gives a convincing performance, although the solution of the problem--his joining the United States Navy--is of questionable value...
...accuracy, its almost unique tone that manages to combine veneration for a great man with shrewd understanding of a human being. But in addition to these qualities, Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses, its sturdy faith in the common people...