Word: hardboiledness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements...
To Pittsburgh some years ago went hardboiled, sleek-haired Nick Stirone.
Ann Sothern is a pretty, well-shaped, hardboiled, slangy blonde (peroxide) who has been around sufficiently to know who and what is strictly from Dixie. Born Harriette Lake in 1909 at Valley City, N.D., she was tapped for M.G.M. just 21 years later. Among her assets at that time were...
Sam Harris was shrewd, hardboiled, but not a producer who ate playwrights and actors alive. He got along with them. About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay. When he brought the airy satire of George S. Kaufman to...
Four days later, "K. T." and a few technicians were at Rock Island Arsenal looking over a medium tank (one of about 200 now on hand, mostly out of date). Day after, he was back in Detroit with 186 pounds of blueprints of an improved 25-tonner and a brand...