Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Road Repairs. In Niles, Calif., when Harry Short was arrested for burglarizing a tavern, he explained why he was carrying a twelve-inch claw bar, a ten-inch screwdriver, a hack saw and six blades, and a three-cornered file: he had a wooden leg and needed all those things to keep it in walking order...
...great trouble with you, Pegler, is that you write too damn long. You run on and on like a hack driver's dream, bloviating about unions and the Constitution and the income tax, and you forget the white paper has been going up and up and that a newspaper has got to set a table of smorgasbord, with some of this and some of that ... to hold the readers who draw the advertisers who pay your princely stipend. Why don't you write more funny stuff? ... I guess you don't want people to know you still...
...bitter to the point of savagery; and he is capable of heightening this grimness still further by laying on strokes of humor that seem to come from the bile of a grizzly bear. Only at his worst does he ever sound like a doctrinaire hack...
...spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...