Word: hardboiledness
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These three appointments amount to the installation of a new top management in WPB. To neat, hardboiled, balding Ferd Eberstadt, who has done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production...
Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish...
Braggart. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Daniel Jones wrote on his draft questionnaire: "I murdered a man." Arrested, he explained that he had lied because he wanted to be a sergeant, understood that the Army liked its men hardboiled.
"Confirm or Deny" is the perfect example of this corn, it has all t he ingredients. First of all, there is Don Ameche, who plays the role of a hardboiled American reporter in London during the great German air bombardment of September, 1940. He is all that Hollywood expects a...
There was assuredly much sweetness in Mr. Lewis' proposal-that A.F. of L. and C.I.O. reunite, kiss and be friends-but there was a notable lack of light. Skeptical searchers soon claimed that they had flashed some light into a dark corner of the plan: an understanding between Lewis...