Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last October, the publishing world talked about an unhappy coincidence. Simultaneously with publication in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, of a savage burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered...
...However, I believe," concluded Mr. Thomas persuasively, "that there are thousands of people of adventurous spirit in Great Britain who should have the chance to do some of the hard pioneer work that wants doing in Canada...
...remote Teheran, capital of Reza Shah Pahlavi, swashbuckling "King of Kings," a hard-boiled Chicago Tribune correspondent sat down last week to cable news that a long disregarded Persian police order forbidding men and women to converse together on the street is at last being literally and rigidly enforced. Cabled...
While Cabinet ministers looked bewilderedly at one another, President Chiang answered his own question with a torrent of shrill words. "We are not united! We do not work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many...
Mexico's squarejawed, hard-eyed President Emilio Fortes Gil is an oldfangled rough-and-tumble battling lawyer with a newfangled humanitarian conscience. Last week he finished jamming through two thirds of Mexico's 28 state legislatures a Constitutional amendment. It permits enactment by the Mexican Congress of a law which Senor Fortes Gil declares will "create an equilibrium between the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor...