Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...
...humanistic than either godly or Marxian, sounds loudest at film's end, when the town is inundated by a flood, and the depressing suggestion is advanced that only such a great natural disaster can put an end to the eternal quarrels of Communist and capitalist, priest and party hack...
...National Assembly's organizing sessions, the Communists politely withdrew their own candidate, aged hack Marcel Cachin, and made possible the speedy election of 71-year-old Socialist André Le Troquer as Assembly president (Speaker). Without their support, he had been a poor third in the voting...
Smoker's Hack. In Knoxville, Tenn., Golden Gibson, 43, reached absentmindedly for a cigarette, stuck a two-inch firecracker in his mouth and lit it, announced from his hospital bed that he had decided to give up smoking...
After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas City, and she and her daughter lived in a shabby apartment back of the taxicab office. Angeline was "shy and insecure," according to a cousin, and had one ambition that amounted to an obsession: to go to Hollywood and become a film star...