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...sophisticates. They know not of the secret workings of Providence; they are men of little faith. If our forefathers had left freedom to the slave, would there ever have been the Great War? If the people of the West, like great stones, stand oblivious of the seed, we must hack at them until they crumble. The first apostles were never deterred by lack of interest; know, friends, the dramatic power of martyrdom at the hands of the savages...
...Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin believes that "we are all victims, one of another," both girls have a rather unhappy time of it. Quintin decamps, and Ellie carries a torch, but Petta promptly produces a hack writer as a consolation prize^-a has-been as a man of letters but a still-is as a lover...
Though Trumbull eventually turned to business and hack portraiture to support his declining years, he could well boast, in a letter to Jefferson, of "having borne personally a humble part in the great events which I was to describe...
Randolph, his lawyer told the court last week, objected to "paid hack." Those words were accusing him of being "a journalistic prostitute and of writing for money what he was told-a common literary drudge." Actually, argued the lawyer, Randolph's value to editors was "the fact of his complete independence." He called witnesses from Fleet Street who testified that Randolph was indeed clamorously independent...
...barrister for The People then flung his sharpest harpoon. Had Randolph even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...