Word: hardboiledness
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There, under the supervision of hardboiled, West Point-trained Major General Charles T. Harris, every gun or vehicle is exhaustively tested and compared with enemy weapons in Aberdeen's museum of foreign material. Then a number of the weapons are made and sent overseas for trial in combat. Not...
Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
The man who did much of the combing-out job is hardheaded, old (68) Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, veteran of the Spanish war. Gasser, serving in the Office of Civilian Defense in the early, jittery days of the war, met the civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus...
There was the privy, there the porkers' . pen. Here was the well, and through this mossy head Uprose the bucket, stately, oaken, red To slake the hearty thirsts of lusty men. Hardboiled, our sires. Their water should have been.
Two days after the hardboiled, sardonically titled Farewell, My Lovely (TIME, Dec. 18) opened in Minneapolis, Audience Research Inc., a Gallup offshoot, persuaded its client RKO to change the title. Reasons: the old title was confusing, unattractive to murder mystery addicts. The new, informative, alluring title: Murder, My Sweet.