Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granville's Luck. Two years ago Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville was one of the two most successful manufacturers of racing planes in the U. S. His factory at Springfield, Mass. turned out the Gee Bee (Granville Brothers) in which Jimmy Doolittle set a world's record (294 m...
There was never a doubt about the bill's passage. The slashing attack upon it by a dogged minority was wasted effort from the start. Pennsylvania's Reed for the Republican opposition excoriated the stabilization fund and the power given the Secretary of the Treasury to use it...
Nick Charles had been a private detective, had gladly retired when he married a well-to-do wife. Junketing in Manhattan with his congenial spouse (like all good Hammett characters, Nick is a dogged, early-&-late drinker), he finds himself gradually dragged into an annoying mystery. Clyde Wynant, half-crazy...
Mark Sullivan and other panting contemporary historians, including those runners in the ruck who can spare no breath for comment, would do well to mark this book in passing. In 320 pages Author Brunngraber, with painstaking Teutonic methodism, has compressed a significant world-history of the past 51 (1880-1931...
Most U. S. citizens think of the Dutch in terms of a bonneted little creature who is the scourge of dirt. The rest of the world-particularly the British-think of the Dutch in terms of stubbornness. It was the stubborn Dutch East Indian rubber planters who knocked Britain'...