Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sample story is "Dayspring Mishandled." of how Manallace, "a darkish, slow northerner" meted out justice to an affected and bellied person called Alured Castorley. They had worked together at a Fictional Supply Syndicate until Castorley inherited some money and withdrew from hack work to follow "Literature." Chaucer was his prey; soon all the world recognized Castorley as a Chaucerian authority. Manallace remained a hack. During the War they were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author...
...biting wind whistled across Detroit City Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among upright pillars disguised to look like tree trunks. No decoration scheme could conceal the fact that there was more empty floor space than in any previous National Aircraft Show. The planes on display numbered only half of last year's. But the exhibitors assured each other that they, who had answered...
...Lombardi (huge catcher) to Cincinnati in even exchange for two in-fielders-Joe Stripp, Tony Cuccinello-and Catcher Clyde Sukeforth. In a trade with St. Louis, Brooklyn last month acquired a hard-hitting outfielder who may make up for the loss of Babe Herman -squat, red-faced Lewis ("Hack'') Wilson, who made 56 homeruns in 1930 and was last winter traded to St. Louis by the Chicago Cubs after a number of run-ins with Manager Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby and the late William Wrigley...
...trading Fielder Hack Wilson and a young pitcher named Bud Teachout to the Cardinals, the Cubs last winter got Burleigh Grimes, famed spitball pitcher who pitched a two-hit game in last year's World Series. The success of the Giants, according to Manager McGraw, depended largely on the performance of Second Baseman Hughie Critz who hurt his throwing arm early last season and may not yet be fully recovered. The Giants new left fielder, Len Koenecke, bought for $75,000 from Indianapolis, last week made two two-base hits in a game against the Cubs...
...spectacle of a disinterested English intellect resorting to hack-writing of this sort is as frequent as it is strangely inconsistent with that "mental energy and intellectual relaxation," which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter flaunts as the chief glory of the English university. British writers and lecturers have long managed to turn a pretty penny at the expense of American passion for criticism. And Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's attempt tinctured with ignorance is equally puerile...