Word: hardbitten
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...last week in pursuit of a band of Arab rebels. Late at night they made contact near the little village of Slonta. There was a running fight. Rifles flashed yellow in the dark. Twelve tribesmen were killed. A short charge captured most of the rest, including their leader, a hardbitten, wiry old veteran of 75, wearing the silken turban cords of a sheik...
Carl D. Groat, United Press news director in Manhattan, saw the despatch. As hardbitten newsmen often do, he simultaneously winced at the private tragedy and snapped at the human interest story. He ordered United Press men to hunt for a supply of cortical extract among the physicians of their community. Roscoe Snipes, U. P. bureau manager at Buffalo, recalled Professor Hartman's paper before the chemists, persuaded him through a reporter?after Dr. Torpin had sent a personal request from Chicago?to send a supply...
Short, wiry, hardbitten, he was born 33 years ago on a Texas ranch. He went to the University of Texas, later worked for a while on the Dallas News. In 1919 he broke into New York on the old Herald. He was never an outstanding reporter. He stayed with the Herald when Frank Andrew Munsey merged it with the now defunct morning Sim and when Ogden Reid merged it with his Tribune...
...attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
...obscure, remembers when "C. C." was called from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1896 by the late famed Joseph Pulitzer to take the city desk of the Evening World. In the next 20 years City Editor Chapin won his nickname, "Simon Legree of Park Row." Brilliant, erratic, hardbitten, utterly ruthless, he feared no one. was feared by many, his underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, World...