Word: hardboiledness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geoffrey West makes no mention of his pseudonymous fellow, Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food...
Bugs Moran had been in gaol the day his partner was mowed down. Big, greying and hardboiled, he had suffered much from the puppuppetty-pup of the machineguns. His power really was broken when his seven chief followers were riddled in his garage, St. Valentine's Day of 1929...
Any afternoon, unless it is too wet or too hot to move, the tennis courts are crowded and the Plain dotted with enthusiastic golfers. Those "elephants" who have not yet mastered the dance march daily to Cullom, while the "walri" who cannot swim go to the gymnasium pool for hardboiled...
Astute playgoers recognized a familiar sound about some of the names in the case. They recalled "Hildy" Johnson as the hero of The Front Page, virile play of Chicago newspaper men by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Murphy was another of the hardboiled reporters. Duffy Cornell, neither seen nor heard...