Word: hardboiledness
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The title piece is less a story than an impressionistic anecdote. It ironically details the slender history of a nameless Negro in an overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails...
In an age when people have most things fairly well analyzed and the rest fairly well conjectured, no one dares deny the almost divine whimsicality which now sends men voyaging through the fogs of the Atlantic in tiny planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he...
Observers mused over Dr. Suzzallo's "hardboiled" stand. It was curious to recall that Governor Roland H. Hartley of Washington, Dr. Suzzallo's foe in the state's recent politico-educational upset, once styled child welfare work, which is what the Oregon teachers were virtually proposing for...
Soon "Per Schedule" Summerall, that rigid disciplinarian, that man who gets things done, that "hardboiled" artillery philosopher, will leave his duties at Governors Island* to become the peacetime chief of the army. In the language of the streets, he should keep the army on its toes. Said he, many years...
*Like many another personage, Mrs. Ford seldom permits herself to be photographed. The above, snapped in 1923, is perhaps the clearest idea of her countenance available to the reading public. Commercial picture-dealers declare that they have never obtained pictures of the heirs to the Ford fortune, Edsel's...