Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early notes about New Orleans, lovely, sleepy "City of Dreams," are frequent bits of that exquisite phrasing and wayward charm for which Hearn was later famed. The sketches appeared in The New Orleans Item when the unkempt, erratic and friendless young genius was eking out his early years doing hack newspaper work and living on the "ultra-canal" side of the city. There are vivid, shimmering bits of description and portraiture, some humorous, some elusively lovely and redolent of the quaint, exotic charm of the picturesque old city...
...Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds in supporting an exceedingly beautiful daughter (Betty Weston). To his horror he finds his boss putting out Moonlight Mama, a hit founded...
...faded. He returned to his wife for consolation only to discover her hankering for a husband of greater elegance and ardor. Spring came-the queer intoxication of love stirred universally. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane, the young poet who was Papa Jonas' assistant, found romance in a seagoing hack; even Jane Demonstration went in search of love to her doom. But to Mr. Aristotle, Spring only brought despair-he had suffered many minor indignities and now, at last, he heard that a handsome young puppet was to take his place with the fascinating but callous Annabelle Lee. Maddened...
HARVARD 1927 ANDOVERKilgour, Robinson, Dean l.e. r.e., BrownDaley, Browning, l.t. r.t., PhillipsSexton, Colby, Lindner, l.g. r.g., HealyBond, Rosecrans, c. c., LandersSavory, Hitch, r.g. l.g., Johnson, Spiel, HotchkorkPlatt, Porter, Hack, r.t. l.t., BradleyRudman, l.e. l.e., PriorHamlen, q.b. q.b., Randall, JonesZarakov, l.h. r.h., ParisienMiller, r.h. l.h., Billhardt, HammersleyCoady, f.b. f.b., Sandberg, Foote, McLeila
Tackles; Browning, F. L. Daley, A. Donald, J. M. Gates, H. H. Hack, J. R. Harrison, A. Lemmon, G. Platt, C. Whitman, G. C. Young...