Word: hack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ratified, he set up a clamor, as the Navy League's president, for speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When President Hoover and Secretary Adams last month began to hack down the Navy's budget, Propagandist Gardiner cried out in pain and protest. The proposal by Italy's Dino Grandi for an all-round suspension of naval building for one year sent him into a statistical spasm...
...Chicago Cubs. The Cubs, under the much discussed new management of Rogers Hornsby, have been hampered this year by the obstreperous behavior of Pitcher Perce ("Pat") Malone, who three weeks ago assaulted two Hearst sportswriters who had disparaged his pitching; and by the poor hitting of Rightfielder Lewis Robert ("Hack") Wilson, who recently absented himself from the club's quarters for seven nights, was punished by suspension for the balance of the season...
Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
...closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...
...course there are books of an ephemeral nature whose sensational and journalistic qualities make them popular for a time and which are undoubtedly aided by this florid method of advertising. The ranks of these books are growing and already there is a large group of hack writers engaged in producing a steady stream of such material. They can hardly be called literature, however, and can best be likened to the stereotyped products turned out every week by the Hollywood movie mills. But as long as it is possible to keep a book and read it over more than once there...