Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about much as they please without serious...
Died. Ada Lewis, 52, famed comedienne, creator of "tough girl" roles, actress in 40 production* during a career of 38 years in which she appeared with numberless celebrities, including Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, Lew Fields, George Arliss, etc., etc., etc., etc.; at her home in Hollis, L. I., of complications following a nervous breakdown seven months ago, while under contract to appear in Sunny, which opened (see Page 00) in Manhattan last week...
...running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...
...Toronto, Miss Ada Mackensie whipped her ball over the tough hassocks of the Royal Ottawa Golf course. After her tumbled a varied field of golfers, women who had come to compete in the Canadian Women's Open. Accoutred perhaps less gaudily than MacFarlane (above) but assuredly more seasonably, in homespun skirts and woolie whatnots, they played for four days, played until all the able U. S. women had been eliminated? until only Mrs. Alexa Sterling Fraser was left to face Miss Macken-sie?until Mrs. Fraser too, at the end of 26 holes, succumbed...
Greb vs. Walker. Another tough little man against a tough bigger man-Michael Walker, the welterweight champion, Harry Greb, the best middleweight in the world. Both are muscled all over like pumas; both fight hardest when they are hurt. Referee Edward Purdy foresaw a difficult evening. In the first few rounds, he hovered about, breaking clinches, warily eyeing navels, while Walker slashed and bashed, uppercutted, jabberwocked and jamboureed, with the crowd roaring and Greb, never unhappy, hitting back. Referee Purdy scuttled out of the way as best he could in the next rounds, while Greb came in, his windmill arms...