The tradition of rolling hard boiled eggs down the hills continued until 1876 when Congress put a stop to it.
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After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.
John Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org, an American consultancy, offers a hard-boiled view of all this.
We will certainly respect the history, but some of the best hard-boiled fiction is being written today.
Expectations are so high that even hard-boiled Wall Street types are now ascribing magical powers to Steve Jobs.
Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.
Her heroine, Eve Diamond, prowls an updated version of the city Raymond Chandler made famous in his hard-boiled mysteries.
To appreciate just how much so, one only has to read old hard-boiled detective novels and English manor-house mysteries.
The laser, which made a rapid-fire popping sound, cut cleanly and quickly through the outer shell of a hard-boiled egg.
Whatever you think of the rubber-faced funnyman, hard-boiled sax-noodling anti-hero is unlikely to be the first image that comes to mind.
After three martinis my friend switches to a local brew of Budweiser, salt and a hard-boiled egg plopped in a glass.
Children are the primary beneficiaries of the festivities and take part in a number of activities, such as decorating hard-boiled eggs.
Breakfast is always the same: some cold smoked fish, hard-boiled eggs, pungent natto (fermented tofu) and other leftovers from the night before.
However, Sturges deftly puts his own spin on the hard-boiled detective story.
But Bowden also recommends even lower-cal choices, like a single hard-boiled egg.
Rather than baskets, children once left out their straw-filled caps and bonnets to be filled with colored, hard-boiled eggs by the Easter Hare.
Wolfe, the director, has pulled off the stunning feat of turning them into a true ensemble, one whose hard-boiled unanimity is awesome to behold.
Why do hard-boiled analysts, who see right through rigged elections in Russia and Syria, fall for "the biggest crime of fraud in Egyptian history"?
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So parents give their children an extra banana or hard-boiled egg.
They include hard-boiled history, such as a review of how the confused motives of the British government's 1917 Balfour Declaration first laid the ground for the conflict.
Dishes like pork and shrimp dumplings topped with a hard-boiled quail egg are so popular that diners will crowd around as soon as carts enter the dining room.
An action-packed, hard-boiled science fiction novel of redemption and revenge.
More hard-boiled analysts want solid evidence of a sustainable business model that can be defended from competition, and that the manifold costs of acquiring and keeping the customers is really affordable.
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The men, filthy from scavenging for belongings in the ruins, sit for a smoke and a chat, while the women prepare miso soup with vegetables, hard-boiled eggs and seaweed for dinner.
If her victory in Ames was no great surprise an evangelical Christian with hard-boiled pro-life, anti-gay-marriage credentials was always likely to prosper in the God-fearing cornfields of Iowa her disciplined comportment as a campaigner has been.
For children, at least in our family, the main event wasn't the service, or snacking on the symbolic bitter herbs, hard-boiled eggs or sweet charoset (a paste made from apples and nuts), or even dinner.
Whether you are a devotee of the Black Swan Theory or merely another hard-boiled cynic like me, you may now be counted among those who place little comfort in years of accumulated stock market statistics.
The hard-boiled Hong Kong action god (last seen in 1995's Peace Hotel) officially blasted off his Hollywood film career when his long-planned American movie, The Replacement Killers, began shooting in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
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