Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Statistic: The average man weighs 150 lb. If he were worth his weight in gold he would have a rough value...
...made one goal and missed a lot of excellent opportunities to score again before the first period was completed. In the second quarter playing on both sides weakened; Harvard showed a fair margin of superiority, however, by winning two more points. The last half of the game was extremely rough and there were many free kicks. Neither team scored and the game dragged along to a weary...
...reminiscent of the frontier days when the first railroads were thrown across the western deserts of the U. S. Oldtime "desert rats" swarmed into a small town which had boomed because of its geological location (TIME, Feb. 10). Gaming tables and coin-in-slot pianos were prevalent. There was rough carnival in the atmosphere. Notably missing among the celebrants were officials from Arizona, only Colorado River State to oppose the dam. Arizona's reason: the dam will divert water and power now hers to the other six States (Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, California...
...course of the operetta has its normal ups and downs until the beginning of Act II, when all of a sudden blond, curly-headed Mr. Robertson starts a rough & tumble fight with Mr. Clements over the favors of Miss Terry. This event helps to differentiate Nina Rosa from its operatic contemporaries. It is really a swashbuckling, galvanated musical drama, of the sort which appeals to a faintly sadistic expectancy on the part of its spectators...
Garland's sense of humor, robust if not very uproarious, is strong enough to include himself. When he was a young man still trying to pierce the carapace of Boston, he overheard someone saying of him, " 'He's a diamond in the rough,' a fact which I myself dimly appreciated." Several times Garland met famed Humorist Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley), but "he was very serious in his talks with me, perhaps because he felt something depressing in me. We discussed weighty things most weightily...