Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-eight now, Charles Edison has often said that he was born with two strikes called. The late (1931), great Thomas Alva Edison was a genius, but a genius can be a hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with a great appreciation for the important trivia of living, young Charles Edison spread his share of wild oats around Llewellyn Park, N. J., where the family reigned in feudal quietude. Not until he had labored through Massachusetts Institute of Technology and settled down in the business end of the loosely...
When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...
Last week, while major-league baseball players were polishing their golf clubs in preparation for the coming spring-training season, many a U. S. youth, with a yearlong accumulation of hard-earned nickels & dimes in his pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung up in the last five years. Baseball schools (geared to precede spring training) charge from $40 to $75 tuition for four-to six-week courses, make no guarantees to place graduates, serve as a showroom for talent as well as a classroom for instruction...
...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...
Jack Robinson, crusty old publisher of the Jewett, Tex., Messenger, whose handset masthead reads: "We Guarantee to Interest, if Not to Please You." When the "shorts" (hard times) come to Leon County, Editor Robinson takes off his shirt, deserts his type cases and rusticates along the river-bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among...