Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goat? Where there are "villains," there is likely to be a "goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from...
...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...
Died. Frances Newman, 40, author of The Hard-boiled Virgin; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled...
...jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...