Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danse dans un Pavilion de Jardin (see cut), painted about 1718, is one of the famous Fêtes Galantes of Watteau's maturity. Watteau ran away from home, did hack work, was rescued by rich friends, resented their kindnesses, died young (37) of tuberculosis. But he lived in Paris in a graceful period and reflected its graces...
George Phillips directed the Leverett Glee Club, Charles Berger the canon group, and Katherine Hack led the Wellesley girls. Martin Kalman-off accompanied the groups. The soloists were Ann Burnham and Charles Berger...
Katharine Hack, Wellesley, class of '39, will direct the Madrigal group, while George W. Phillips '39, is to conduct the Leverett House Glee Club...
...backbone of U. S. cockfighting are the sub rosa hack fights and mains. What went on at an abandoned farmhouse outside Fayetteville, N. C. last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...