Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the British Raj could ever forgive U Saw seemed possible only to those who know how devious is the course of empire and how tough the imperial going has been in Burma since it was liberated from the Japs...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...
...name when he founded TACA Airways. He built his Latin American airline into the world's largest cargo carrier. But TACA remained a one-man show and Yerex made all the decisions. Last week it looked as if someone else had finally made a decision for tough, one-eyed Mr. Yerex. Out he went as president of TACA, the climax to a long struggle for control of the company...
...success was due to a personality of opposites. Her father's family of lawyers gave her a tough masculine mind; her mother's family of artists a highly feminine creative touch. In her 22 years at Lord & Taylor's she used them both to advantage. Under the team of Hoving & Shaver, Lord & Taylor became one of the nation's swank stores. And Dorothy Shaver became one of Manhattan's top purveyors of fashion...
Priestley (who has just returned from Moscow, where his new play, An Inspector Calls, is running in two theaters simultaneously) plainly tells whom he considers fools and rogues. They are "the tough fellows behind the huge . . . cartels," the "Lords Midas" of the press, "literary ladies and gents who adore peasants," "the aesthete with his private income . . . bloodless and shrinking." Veterans are also plainly told that in eschewing hominess they must stand four-square behind state-planned economy (". . . I do not believe in economic liberty. . . . Economic life is necessarily a communal life...