Word: hardboiledness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The picture itself is somewhat less sensational than its timing. Its plot is almost as involved as a peace treaty. Cinemactress Janis is Nurse O'Neil, who stalks around rather weirdly as the hardboiled, softhearted head of a female nursing unit at the front. She has had a past...
His appetite was good, his taste for game still as keen as when Mrs. Roosevelt said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of...
Extremists both North and South make the solution of this problem tougher. In Manhattan sits the unofficial Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc. Taking a they-hired-the-money attitude, it protests partial settlement offers by the debt-laden Republics, thereby revives traditional Latin American resentment against the Shylock of the...
John Nance Garner. Cactus Jack is 71, sound in wind & limb, a hickory conservative who does not represent the Old South of magnolias, hoopskirts, pillared verandas, but the New South: moneymaking, industrial, hardboiled, still expanding too rapidly to brood over social problems. He stands for oil derricks, sheriffs who use...
Unlike almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then...