Word: hardboiledness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This conclusion serves the purposes of law & order. It is not in keeping with the rest of the picture, which is a chipper, hardboiled, amusing essay on petty thievery. In his first starring performance, James Cagney has a role in which he is more mischievous than wicked. He makes rascality...
Hardboiled Variety has called it "a saintly picnic, a slice of sweetness, a glorification of the humble and the familiar." Fortuitous though his creation was, Seth Parker has gained a radio following greater even than that of august Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Says the preface to his hymnal: "Seth Parker...
POWER AND GLORY, The Life of Boies Penrose - Walter Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school...
10%! In their damp stone offices in Whitehall, last week, the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty pondered how to prevent another gassing of the fleet, another explosion of Jack Tar's touchy sense of fair play. Hardboiled, their Lordships reduced the greatest mutiny in 134 years to terms...
The third change in management was a new chairman for Bank of America, California, which, with $1,161,000,000 in resources and 438 branches, looms as the fourth biggest bank in the U. S. The new chairman (who succeeds Edward James Nolan) is Lynn Porter Talley, known to his...