Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., called on President Coolidge, presented his credentials...
...paper from me every day is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and he's always ready with a bit of cheerful conversation. He's taken me to dinner at the Colonial Club too, and he says that when things seem to be a bit black he thinks of the tough time I've had and realizes that it's not as bad as it might...
...tough job for the President to give a job to William Josiah Tilson, brother of House Floor Leader John Q. Tilson of Connecticut. Last spring the President nominated him as Judge in a newly created Federal district in Georgia, but withdrew his name when the Senate showed hostility. When the long session adjourned, the President gave him a recess appointment. In the short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess...
...climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped...
...them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone in the other direction, proceeded to stir the audience almost to apoplexy with sound alone. He says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first...