Word: hardheadedness
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Since 1923 this line of hardheaded domestic common sense has been nationally syndicated by the Philadelphia Public Ledger's feature bureau. And since the Hall-Mills trial of 1926, Dorothy Dix has devoted herself exclusively to her perplexed public. To her handsome town house on New Orleans' shady...
Upon learning that his undergraduates had been invited to play a game of football with the University of Michigan, President Andrew D. White of Cornell snapped: "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there...
Of his first case of national importance, Justice Wheat took a strict, hardheaded, Yankee view. Involved was no question of national emergency, such as impelled the U. S. Supreme Court at its last term to uphold certain State statutes that smacked of New Dealism. The problem, as Judge Wheat saw...
ANITRA'S DANCE-Fannie Hurst-Har-per ($2.50). "The world wagged. Sophie wagged. Waxman wagged. How furiously it all wagged and wagged." With such arrestingly waggish words Author Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) this week slapped down the first course of her latest table d'hote, Anitra...
Concerts might be shoes or silver polish for the systematic, hardheaded way they are merchandised in the U. S. New York managers are the wholesalers, local managers the retailers. Sound business means two things: the New York manager has been able to sell a substantial number of dates; and the...