Word: weather-beaten
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Could anyone in the world sleep more easily because of Stalin's bedtime message? Jan Christian Smuts is reputed a sound sleeper, chiefly because he gets to bed early, has often slept on camp cots or iron beds. But last week South Africa's weather-beaten, 77-year-old Prime Minister spoke of troubled nights. To women members of his United Party gathered in Pretoria he said: "Have you ever had the experience of waking at 2 o'clock in the morning in a sweat of not knowing how to solve the problems of tomorrow...
Died. Harry Carey, 69, veteran cowboy star of silent movies; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Weather-beaten Carey made a Hollywood comeback as a character actor, played in the 1941 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness...
...looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
Inside-Out. Suspicious U.S. pros did not believe that he was only 29 (a weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...