Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After absorbing the information, I am inclined to believe Leo is getting a raw deal.... The Lip is a tough guy on the field because he wants to win. He's being paid to have a winning ball club and he earns his salary. The kids think him a great guy because he's the type of a fellow who can let important things wait in order to answer questions or help some kid with his baseball problem...
...when Evalyn Walsh was ten, her tough, Tipperary-born father struck gold at Ouray, Colo. Tom Walsh had lived in a boxcar, tended store in Deadwood, and hammered outcroppings for fruitless decades. But when the millions rolled in he twirled the ends of his handlebar mustache, hustled his family off to Washington and swore that his daughter was going to be a lady. Evalyn promptly swore that she wouldn't. She didn't. But in the next 50 years she proved that with $100 million, a wild Irish miner's daughter could do almost everything else under...
...between egotism and patriotism was tough. For a time the energetic First Lady faltered. But to la Senora, long snubbed by stiff-necked, short-pedigreed Argentine society because she came from the wrong side of the tracks, the trip to Madrid seemed a chance to prove her social acceptability. Last week, she made up her mind: she would go. Democracia confidently reported that Senora Peron's visit would "revive the diplomatic life of Madrid...
Though Coach Bill Barclay has done a bit of re-shuffling in the lineup--Larry Gray is playing his first Varsity match today in the number six spot--he doesn't expect that Amherst will prove as tough a nut to crack as Williams last Wednesday. "We just squeaked through at Williamstown," the team's "pro" asserted yesterday...
Although Loretta Young, in the title role, loses a split decision to a tough Swedish accent, she still manages to turn in a competent job. Joseph Cotten as the Hollywood style congressman no paunch and Charles Bickford as a highly fictional butler, contribute to the general rewarding effect. Honors for the evening, however, must go to Ethel Barrymore who, in the role of the political matriarch, gives the impression that she could clean up Boston polities or reform the Republican party without breaking into much of a sweat...