Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sure Do." Last week Gus arrived in New York, a tall, weather-tough man with crinkled eyes and a face reddened in the high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...
...thought much of New York. "Them subway entrances. They're like gopher holes." He had not thought much of New York's "young ones." Said Gus: "They all look like they wanted to go to a picture show day and night. They don't look tough enough to go huntin...
...Napoleon I sneered at England as "a nation of shopkeepers," he was maligning (and at the same time acknowledging the importance of) Britain's middle class, backbone of the nation's social structure since it emerged from feudalism. Nowadays in warbled Britain all classes are having a tough time, but the middle class is having the worst time of all. The moneyed aristocrats (formerly known as the "ruling class") have to dip into their capital, but they are still vastly better off than anybody else. The working classes have had wage raises to meet the cost of living...
Thayer dropped a tough Hollis sextet, 14-6, in the last quarter on an interception by Jerry Smith, who lateraled to Back Brehm for the crucial score. Emil DeCoen paced Lionel to a 12-0 win over Thayer South...
Although Bradford has hollered less than ever this fall, he will be a tough man to beat. He ousted Maurice Tobin by 148,408 votes in 1946, and his record since then has been clean, if not startling. This does not mean he will breeze in, however. Dever has the political bright fortune to be a self-made man who worked his way through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent...