Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take any advice from your butcher . . . You are in a rut and won't try anything new so we are getting out of the habit of suggesting things. We sure are tired of hearing you complain about tough meats ... If you take the toughest piece of meat and rub it well with any citrus fruit, leave it in the refrigerator overnight, then slow-cook it, you will be delighted with its tenderness and flavor...
...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...
...rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing a path through one rubble-strewn street, Bill McKee, a big, tough technician, fourth grade, spotted six loaded gasoline tank cars on a siding next to one of the biggest fires. Wheeling his bulldozer around, he plunged into the smoke, came out pulling the cars away from danger...
Fighting Father Dunne (RKO Radio), a St. Louis priest (circa 1900), gets interested in newsboys who are tough and toughly used. Thanks to a disconcerting, downright embarrassing skill at cadging, badgering and sharp dealing in the interests of a good cause, he manages to found a home for them-first a ramshackle old wooden one, at last a portly new brick one. The boys, needless to say, are mischievous little devils but angels at heart. The one exception (Darryl Hickman) is ruined by the influence of his particularly villainous father (well played by Joseph Sawyer...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...