Word: hardboiledness
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Agents for Victor Emanuel, horsey Manhattan broker, aftef being repeatedly eluded, seized the Rolls-Royce coupe of John Barry Ryan, eccentric son of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, in part satisfaction of a judgment of $37,353.46 obtained by Mr. Emanuel for rent on a piece of la>nd...
To heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last...
No Man of Her Own (Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a...
Heavy selling came into railroad shares last week. Wall Street's explanation: the Coolidge Commission is expected to come put soon with a "hardboiled" report urging that railroads scale down their capitalization. One suggestion Wall street did not expect the Commission to follow was made last week by Nathan...
"But aren't they perfectly right, these watchful citizenesses? Why should one admit to one's presence one who devours hardboiled capitalists with the same appetite and relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is...