Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sure that Brooks's activities did not exceed U. S. folk custom and include murder, the inquisitor last week ordered men with mattocks, picks and shovels to hack into the frozen sand among the Brooks's birches. Soon the chilled diggers pried out two infants wrapped in old newspapers. One of the infants seemed to have had a fractured skull...
...campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon...
Some fishermen were hired to hack the flesh away with knives. Progress was slow. Day followed dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...Indoor Athletic Building at 8.00 o'clock yesterday evening under the auspices of the Eastern Massachusetts District Board of the National Committee of Approved Basketball Officials. The two competing teams were from the Quincy and Woburn high schools of Greater Boston. The demonstration was refereed by Louis Hack, basketball official from Quincy, and Leo Appiani, member of the judiciary committee of the Board. After a close race in which each team was continually getting the advantage over the other, Woburn defeated Quincy by the score...
...stage. Merrily We Roll Along rolls along considerably less merrily after the end of the second act when it has become completely apparent that the tragedy which Authors Kaufman and Hart are unveiling with such deliberate irony is the old and familiar one of an artist turned successful hack. Superbly staged by Kenneth MacKenna's brother, Jo Mielziner; superbly acted by the biggest cast seen in a legitimate Broadway production this season, Merrily We Roll Along is an amusing and affecting study of interesting peewees, ornamented brightly by cartoons of genuine saloon celebrities and honest wisecracks. Asked...