Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squat little Outfielder Lewis Robert ("Hack") Wilson, with the smallest feet and the dirtiest uniform in baseball, got his first big league job with the New York
...Harte lost his job, he decided to stay in England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays, but never repeated his early successes. With Mark Twain, Harte collaborated on a comedy, Ah Sin; it was a failure. Bret Harte was still toiling away at his hack-writing when Death came for him in Camberley...
...tenderly requiring them to wash behind the ears and eat their porridge. When they mature, it is found that her ministrations have spoiled them, or else that they have inherited unhappy characteristics from their father, a bootlegger but a bad provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining at his wife instead of beating her, given to opening letters addressed to other persons. The daughter is married to an envious and impoverished lout. The only good son (James Dunn) has ill fortune. He is wrongfully...
...death to dishonor in The Birth of a Nation-plays her present role in the mood that fits it, the mood of a decade ago. Sally Eilers and James Dunn have properly acquired the same frame of mind. Though the picture contains temporal contradictions-the moderne apartment of the hack-painter, the two-horse democrat in which Dunn goes to interrupt Mae Marsh's career at the Old Folks home-it should be popular again. It is a lachrymose anachronism, all the more touching perhaps because no one can believe it any more...
This year Socialist Thomas was running for president of the Borough of Manhattan in municipal election. The Democratic nominee was Samuel Levy, incumbent Tammany hack. Col. Edward C. ("Night Boat") Carrington, president & board chairman of Hudson River Navigation Corp., the Republican nominee, had come into bad odor when it was discovered that he had hired Tammany influence in an attempt to sell one of his piers to the city at an exorbitant price. Deciding that Messrs. Levy and Carrington were both tarred with the same Tammany brush, Republican Wickersham bolted his party, plunked for Socialist Thomas thus...