Word: boiledness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Clifford E. Clinton, boyish owner of the "World's Largest Cafeteria" in downtown Los Angeles, customers brought so many tales of civic vice and dishonesty that last year he set up shop as a political reformer. With a few aroused sympathizers he hired a hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur...
They are taking more than they leave behind. The memories of raw November football weekends, the Charles at dawn, Widener and Memorial Church at eve with melodic voices, Mallinckrodt at high noon, Radcliffe and Wellesley and Smith in their most festive moments. A visit to the Dean, lunch with a...
Recalled last week in closed session for the purpose of naming names, Commissioner Payne seemed pretty much of a fizzle. He showed up with no evidence against his fellow Commissioners. He did repeat the names of a half-dozen well-known lobbyists. Nevertheless, the Rules Committee, led by its hard...
Trickier to get on and off than an old-fashioned boiled shirt, hemmed in by a landscape as disheveled as a Congressman's collar, the trapped and trammeled Washington-Hoover Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes...
Meanwhile, from behind Rightist lines last week came the report that many U. S. volunteers captured earlier in the war had been summarily shot without trial, most of them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the...