Word: hack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...
...savvy Corum calls the game as he sees it, ignores official scorers and managers (he has been an official scorer himself). Last year, when the scorers charged Hank Greenberg with a twelfth-inning error in the sixth game, Corum calmly said the play was a base hit for Stan Hack. "I told 'em that I could see the play better than anyone else-our broadcasting booth was in left field-and I saw the ball bounce over Hank's head; he never got a glove on it." At 10 o'clock that night, the official scorers decided...
Undergraduates who deem themselves budding Heywood Brouns, Margaret Bourke-Whites, or just plain hack writers will have their first opportunity of the summer term to achieve their goals Friday night, when the Crimson opens competitions for its news, editorial, business, and photographic boards...
Brooklyn Dodger fans are used to great suffering. With particular anguish, they can remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...
There is the honest, talented writer who has never published a serious book, but priggishly signs his detective stories with a nom de plume. He winds up cadging drinks, clowning out parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays...