Word: hack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back...
...comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...
...year-old pride of Pittsburgh seemed to be improving with age. One night last week, with 50 homers to his credit, he stepped to the plate with 11,881 fans howling for him to hit another. With the National League's home-run record of 56 (set by Hack Wilson back in 1930) so close and time so short, Kiner's big problem was to keep from pressing. "When I try to force one," he explains, "it's no good...
...Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit to Wald or a reflection on Hollywood, these...
...cheeks that appeared to be kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...