Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Isabel Paterson: ". . . devastating. It is a book for the tough-minded...
Many a young German cadet rubbed dirt into his small dueling wounds that they might grow the greater. Many a major's pride was the livid white scar running from lip to ear which marks the man tough enough to endure the severing and sewing on of a whole cheek...
Sandberg's masculine vigor exists only in the booming, tough language he cases. In his fundamental ideas and attitude his sentimentality is as bad as that of the most maligned of nineteenth century writers. This is best illustrated in the way he writes about the working class whom he professes to champion. Undoubtedly he does champion them, but he also weeps over their oppression, and is constantly setting them up in potential, and terrible revolution against the ruling classes. Moreover, Sandberg is not really one of the working class because they do not read him. His readers consist mostly...
...Perhaps when she was cradling her baby in her lap as she darned away. She could not tell. For the needle to puncture the infantile skull was easy. At five months the bones of the skull are comparatively soft. They have not yet closed completely, are joined together by tough membrane which in the embryo was the sole case of the brain (TIME, March...
...what part of the body is the dura mater (tough mother) located...