Word: hardboiledness
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Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this...
There are some sights in the world so beautiful that, on observers not incurably hardboiled, they have a physical effect like a cool plunge on a hot day. Most people are so affected by their first sight of the glow and glitter of myriads of artificial stars projected on the...
When moon-faced Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei gave "poor health" as his excuse for resigning (TIME, Aug. 26), correspondents voiced hardboiled doubts that his illness was anything more serious than a case of playing Chinese political possum. This caused Mr. Wang to exclaim angrily: "My illness is very real...
JUDGMENT DAY-James T. Farrell- Vanguard ($2.50). Third volume in the hardboiled trilogy of Studs Lonigan.
Some of the nurses attending the Dionne quintuplets have shown themselves somewhat hardboiled, what with having to stave off Papa & Mama Dionne and the Press with everything from blistering threats to muscular force. Last week all the nurses were notified that after June 1 their services will no longer be...