Word: rough
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...team held light drills both Thursday and yesterday, smoothing off the rough spots...
Broberg is not a rough basketball player despite his personal foul record. Up at Hanover when he was ejected in the first half it was a question of the officials calling everything they saw and almost everything they suspected. He is a hard man to guard, and Columbia's Len will deserves credit for a brilliant bit of defensive play in limiting him to but five points as the Lions upset Coach Cowles...
...charge not likely to be hurled again at Marlene Dietrich now that she has stopped wandering about the desert, strewn with ethereal white veils, and has made the transition to saloon hostess in the good old American Wild West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture capable of popularizing anything...
...Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...
Director Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...