Word: hardbitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boards of 20 great corporations (utilities, steel, paints, hotels). That year he helped undermine the foundation of the tottering Insull empire by selling Sam Insull a huge block of stocks in Insull companies for $56,000,000, about $6,000,000 above its market value. His financing, in the hardbitten, buccaneering tradition of the Coolidge Era, took on a heroic cast because it brought to the Middle West its share of control of American Industry. Admiring Clevelanders called him "Cyrus the Great...
...Reported his action in a long, sharply worded communique which the State Department promptly made public, and added that he was still trying to telephone City of Flint's Captain Joseph Gainard, hardbitten Yankee seafarer who appeared in the news two years ago as captain in the Algic mutiny case...
South of Labrador the going got tough. Great clouds stacked up along the course with their bases almost on the water. Hardbitten Vladimir Kokkinaki, Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
...philosopher as well as a composer and businessman, Ives often writes lengthy prefaces to his compositions. Each movement of his Second Pianoforte Sonata is preceded by a long essay in hardbitten English. Of them he remarks in his dedication: "These prefatory essays were written by the composer for those who can't stand his music - and the music for those who can't stand his essays; to those who can't stand either, the whole is respectfully dedicated...
...three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...