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Nineteen years ago I was graduated from Harvard. My classmate and chum, Bob Brownley, of Richmond, Va., was graduated with me. He was class poet, I, yard marshal. We had been four years together at St. Paul's previous to entering Harvard. No girl and lover were fonder than we of each other. My people had money, and to spare, and with it a hard-headed, Northern horse-sense.
He thanked the clerk, and started to walk up the Haymarket, feeling hard-headed and practical, yet with a strong premonition that he was going to make a fool of himself just the same. It was half-way up the Haymarket that he first became conscious of the girl with the red hair. Plunged in thought, he had not noticed her before.
"You stop because your judgment tells you that you were on the point of making a fool of yourself? No other reason, eh?" "Is not that the best which can be given a hard-headed, clear-eyed lawyer like yourself?
Rob is just the sort of hard-headed, determined fellow who could have made himself felt in whatever role he had taken up, and it seems hard luck that he should have chosen one so extremely dull and unremunerative."
I remember once, after the sudden death of a reserved old gentleman, being one of two or three who went over all his repositories. The other people who did so with me were hard-headed lawyers, and did not seem to mind much; but I remember that it appeared to me a most touching sight we saw.
"Not a bit of it not a bit of it. This is pure business. I was saying to Millie as we came along that you were the very man for us. A man with your flow of ideas will be invaluable on a chicken farm. Absolutely invaluable. You see," proceeded Ukridge, "I'm one of those practical fellows. The hard-headed type. I go straight ahead, following my nose.
The child was "Missing" then, and her heart cried out for him. Opposite my bed was a middle-aged man from Lancashire I suppose he had been in a cotton-mill or a factory a hard-headed, simple-hearted fellow, as good as gold, and always speaking of "the wife." But his nerves had gone to pieces and he was afraid to sleep because of the dreams that came to him.
The hard-headed, moody, quick-tempered peasants, whose stubbornness befits the volcanic origin of their mountains, appear in her first collection of short stories, Children of the Eifel . In the Eifel is situated the Women's Village , all the men of which seek their livelihood overseas, so that all the women swarm about the only man left at home, a cripple.
To him the economics of the case appeal with the same force that they might have for any hard-headed, common sense business American; but beyond this, and perhaps, if the secrets of his heart were known, more than this, Mr.
The new statesman from Leith is cutting a wide swath. Not a day passes but his voice is heard roaring in the Forum; he has visited all the State institutions, dined and wined the governor and his staff and all the ex-governors he can lay his hands on, and he has that hard-headed and caustic journalist, Mr. Peter Pardriff, of the State Tribune, hypnotized.
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