Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...ineffective debater, he rarely enters the Senate's rough & tumble talks. On the infrequent occasions when he is moved to make a speech, he works it out laboriously with his secretaries in advance, reads it from manuscript in a low sing-song voice like a child reciting a well-learned lesson. A Phipps speech empties the Senate press gallery. A rich socialite rather than a successful politician, he abhors personal publicity, shuns newsmen. His Senate friends: Pennsylvania's Reed, New Hampshire's Moses, Connecticut's Bingham. Democrats of the Senate are below his social notice...
Since the great communist scare of 1919. "treat 'em rough" has been the apparent policy of the United States in dealing with the so-called "Red" element of the population. Aside from characteristic protest from such liberal journals as the Nation no one has become very much excited over a situation which places the government in the position of an avowed suppressor of political minorities to whom the constitution guarantees freedom. Anarchist outrages like the Wall Street bombing identified the communist party in the public mind as an outlawed enemy of society to whom no treatment was just save that...
...seen, as well as the sharp upward bending of these layers on the sides. Owing to the position of the meteor it is not possible to ascertain how much of a "nose" it has, and how deep this nose has buried itself in the rock. Accordingly only a rough estimate can be made of its mass, in all probability not less than fifty tons...
...shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which...
Author H. W. Freeman, 31, is an Oxford man, but worked on the land for two years after "going down." Says he: "I do not claim any further knowledge of farming than that of a rough general farm hand (i. e., neither cowman nor horseman)." His first book, best-seller Joseph and His Brethren, took five months to write. Down in the Valley was written in Italy last winter...