Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President & Mrs. Hoover walked out through a French window to the terrace. "All I can do is thank you for this demonstration of fine loyalty," he said, and again there were tears in his eyes. "A very great man has been defeated," explained Everett Sanders, the political hack who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, was beaten too. "The millions of votes that have been cast for him constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes...
...writing music for the old Kalem cinema, then got a job as art critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail his spare-time writing, Author Komroff survived by hack-writing for women's-wear and movie magazines. Bland, sensible, he says: "The best authors are those that are dead...
...five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew of three from his school. Students Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht as mechanic and radioman made all three flights; this year Teacher Ghert von Roth replaced Student Eduard Zimmer as copilot. All flights were characterized by methodical planning, absence of publicity. The first crossing took nine days; last week's, five...
...Face Red? (RKO) takes a somewhat less complaisant view of colyumists. Its hero (Ricardo Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot...
...Bombay, Shaukat Ali, 60, 300 lb., a leader of India's Noncooperative Movement, planned secretly to marry a Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 25-year-old divorced wife of an Irish officer. His son, Zahid Ahmed learned of the plan, rushed to the officiating priest, brandished a knife, threatened to hack off the priest's beard (greatest possible indignity to a Moslem ) if the ceremony was performed. The trembling priest stopped the marriage. That afternoon determined Shaukat Ali got a braver priest, an armed guard, his bride...