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Word: hardboiledness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To hardboiled booksellers Diagrammatics last week recalled Jacob Epstein's sketches, evidenced a talent for drawing (sculpture is Mrs. Hutchins' hobby), and the literary monotones of Gertrude Stein.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Diagrammatics | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

The film opens at the outbreak of the World War, into which the boys are enticed by a hardboiled captain. Their misadventures in training camp are only intensified when they arrive in France, until they succeed in capturing a sizable part of the German army with a single tank. The...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/5/1932 | See Source »

In charge of the Mirror as publisher was Max Annenberg, hardboiled oldtime circulation wrangler for both McCormick and Hearst in Chicago. With his son, Ivan, as circulation manager, he shouldered the Mirror's circulation from 50,000 up to an average of 110,000 daily, 150,000 Saturday, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broken Mirror | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Editor Shepard at present occupies a cluttered office in "John Martin's House," on the 14th floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Child-Man | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

"I'll do what I want whether you like it or not and those that don't can get the hell out of the B. E. F. I'm going to be hardboiled! If any man in the B. E. F. refuses to carry out my orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: To Hell With Civil Law! | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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