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Visions of the Center College eleven of 1921, mixed in with last minute dashes to the Widow's and unfortunate upsets of tea cups at Quincy Street receptions easily suggest themselves to the morbid mind. Too, there is always the chance that the Park Row hack had his fling at Radcliffe romance in his Cambridge days. Perhaps, if Mr. Heywood Broun were still connected with The World, there might have been a hidden, very hidden reference to the language requirements...
Across the Mississippi he worked his way by stoking on a ferry. When he stumbled up the levee he had no resources other than a staggering nose and an inclination to follow it into perilous places. It led him to jobs such as muleteer, waiter, stevedore, hack driver. It took him to libraries and book shops, and eventually to the editorial offices of Westliche Post, where he became a reporter...
Rector Ray was active in amateur theatricals at Columbia University when he was studying law. After a year as reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle and some time doing hack work for the magazines, Rector Ray began his studies at the general theological seminary...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...