Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...career, the organization of the present Mexican air force, a hard business head, an adeptness in Latin-American politico-commercial intrigue...
...slow, dumb, serf-like way, wants her. Because the girls at the bakery dared her to, she took Jencic's hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with scarecrows like, you!" She certainly is not "hard up." The toss of her head, the swing of her hips as she walked away from Jencic, bespeak an alley queen who can pick and change her lovers as she chooses...
...than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion in 1905, repeating in 1907. Last week she was defeated in the quarter-finals by England's Joan Ridley...
...bless his ugly old frontispiece-not only gave us many a laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...
...gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer, Backer Liesy is famed for bouncing parties at his suburban home...