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...gazing at you pensively. Some sat up, turned this way or that from the hips to exhibit their soft back curves, while others faced their beholders squarely erect, with something like defiance in their eyes and a metallic quality about their bold fronts expressive of womankind's underrated hardihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salon de Printemps | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington, D. C. John J. Pierson of Manhattan had the hardihood to refuse the accolades of Wolf's Head and Elihu Club, preferring to await election to "Bones" or "Keys"- which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wedlock | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Concert Mayol has been until very recently the only theatre in France which has had the hardihood to make this charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Quel Beau Nu | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...years ago, with the battle-cry : "More pay for men than for women." Feeling this to be rather specious, they later added : "Men teachers for boys," contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Softies? | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...Hardihood* "Realism Has Crossed the Potomac," by Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hardihood* | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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