Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less originally, made...