Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the crew of the Kingsway, however, Mrs. Battice was not so unpopular. Bough, tough, deep-water tars though they were, they had to admit that her feminine touch made the ship more homelike. Waldemar Karl Badke, towheaded German, "donkeyman,"* got on especially well with her. Every one aboard, including Mr. Battice, knew that they were great friends. Mrs. Battice even drew the fact to her husband's attention, one day when Africa was still many dawns beyond the hot horizon. Mr. Battice strolled on deck to ask a shipmate for the loan of a razor...
Last Saturday a rough and tough Princeton team set foot on the hallowed soil of Cambridge. Nine men in old clothes filed out--of the CRIMSON building with clubs over their shoulders to meet the strangers from New Jersey. It was the first conflict between the warriors of the two colleges this spring. They crossed bats on Soldiers Field. A furious mound battle waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were...
...Manhattan, one Edward L. Stevens, of Tulsa, Okla., strolled peacefully along Ninth Avenue. Came hard Martin Maroney, tough Thomas McLaughlin, lethal Mike Santo, gangsters all, struck down Mr. Stevens, took from him a watch, a diamond...
Critics, offering comprehensive reasons for his immortality, saw no prospect of his music's passing. Said the "Trenton Tough," George Antheil, he of the "Ballet Mecanique" and the panic-striking propeller (TIME, March 21) : "Beethoven is my hero especially on account of form." Said Music Critic William James Henderson: "The supremacy of tone art lay for him [Beethoven] in the identity of form and substance, of matter and embodiment...
...burst through the clouds, do its belated best. Thirty-seven horses started the agonizing 4½-mile chase. Over stone fence, green hedge, wide ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed the finish line a length ahead of Bovril...