Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ernest Hemingway created his monosyllabic prize fighters, gangsters, bull fighters, he gave U. S. writers a powerful insight into the workings of the minds of criminals, fighting men and tough characters in general. Imitators who borrowed his peculiar style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway...
Providence Boys' Club splashers will have a tough nut to crack tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building pool when Coach Hal Ulen's Varsity swimmers meet them for the fifth Crimson meet of the current season...
Driving hard for the second half of the basketball season, Coach Wes Fesler's charges have a hard schedule to look forward to in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball league. Some real tough games are in prospect on which will depend the present standing of the Crimson...
...promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...
...current series of articles on C. I. O., featured in Scripps-Howard newspapers, Benjamin Stolberg, leftist labor writer, described President David Dubinsky of the model International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union as a "shrewd politician, a hard bargainer, as tough as he is honest, and full of fun." Last week Mr. Dubinsky employed a number of these talents at the expense of John L. Lewis. Summoning the executive boards of all the Garment Workers' locals to convention in Manhattan-the first general assembly in six months-President Dubinsky put his position on C. I. O. squarely before...