Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlequin) from the collection of Multimillionaire Storyteller Somerset Maugham, 88. Anticipated proceeds: upwards of $1,400,000, which, along with most of the rest of his estate, Maugham has earmarked for Britain's Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers to spare "needy authors from doing hack work...
...your cover story on the new Speaker of the House of Representatives you state that I regard Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician...
...have never referred to Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician" and I have never considered him such. He has had a long and distinguished career in politics, and is recognized by all who know him as a highly skilled and accomplished legislator. Indeed, his unopposed election to the Speakership is testimony to the regard in which the House membership holds his abilities...
Speaker McCormack sounds like a typical, mindless, party-hack Democrat with blind loyalty to party machinery, just like Harry Truman. It is fascinating to contemplate, isn't it, how different our situation might be if Truman's haberdashery shop in Kansas City hadn't folded, and if the Massachusetts legislature had been more prompt in passing the law requiring two years of high school for those admitted...
...anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...