Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed it with never a quiver. Her old bulletlike serve sang true; her sly placements sped exactly. Mary Browne was buckled down to business, but the two sets took Helen Wills only 45 minutes: 6-3, 6-2. Lenglen. Not long ago, Harold ("Red") Grange wound sinuously, ably through tough tacklers while thousands screamed frenzied delight. C. C. Pyle, "Red's" manager, was pleased. "Red" was a good bet-but how long would this Wheaton iceman last? There were other "stars," men and women of taste, gentility who could keep fickle sports-lovers' interest-Tilden, Jones, Wills . . . Last...
...ruminated a grizzled golf professional on hearing of the scores made on various courses last week. Eastern Open. At Wolf Hollow Golf Links (Delaware Water Gap, Pa.) Walter Hagen won the Eastern Open Championship. The course, a 6,500-yard layout, was an exceptionally difficult one, with long carries, tough sea-grass in the roughs, greens intricately trapped. Two rounds of 72 would probably, the greensmen thought, be good enough to win; such stars as Joseph Turnesa, Emmet French, Cyril Walker struggled to get less than 80; John Farrell, with a 69, declared that he had played the best golf...
...times, of course, they have their governor, Len Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...
...English-he's got to stand for something. A deep-hearted old jingo, tough as an acorn. Hearts of oak-wasn't that an old song? The acorn-heart of England. Ships, of course, and exports; that will be his business. An oak can stand for three hundred years, but this man is old. Have to get a big scene to bring out his fibre. Well, say he's in trouble with his stockholders; they don't like the way he's running the company, want him to resign, but he thinks he can diddle...
That is why Defiant Doty shrugged his shoulders at the court, received the sentence with, "Well, that's tough." For eight years the handsome legionnaire will sweat at hard labor building roads through Africa, not at all resembling the reckless swashbuckler who once fought for France; unless, perhaps, the Legion feels another little tug from Tennessee...