Word: hardboiledness
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Thomas Garfield Sterrett, hardboiled retired Major of the U. S. Marines, onetime orderly for President Roosevelt, alleged inventor of "the Leathernecks" as a nickname for the Marines, alleged onetime manager of "the two biggest advertising agencies in New York," sheriff of Erie County, Pa., and President of the Pennsylvania State...
This mild magazine cover farce, improbable and not hilarious, was written by Fred Ballard, who did so much better with Believe Me, Zantippe, and by Charles A. Bickford, who acted a hardboiled newspaper egg in Chicago.
The Street of Sin. Basher Bill seizes an egg, bashes it against his own forehead, rips off the shell, swallows the nutritious portion whole. He grabs another, and another,-until he has consumed twelve (12) eggs. The eggs are hardboiled; so is Basher Bill as played by Emil ("Slow Motion...
Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as...
Vincent Vigoroux, 15, youngest editor and publisher in the U. S., whose paper is The Little Acorn of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 1,150 editors of high school papers throughout the land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype...