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...sent to the most reputable school in town, the old Central High School. Almost immediately after graduation he joined the faculty as instructor in drawing, and proceeded to grow a fine pair of side whiskers. Though he fought through the Civil War and spent far more time as a hack illustrator than he ever had as a teacher, he was known for the rest of his life as "The Professor...
...Washington James Knox Polk II, 33, great-great-grandnephew of the eleventh U. S. President, applied for a hack-driver's license...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
Claude Rains, whose hypnotist's face has worked, visibly and invisibly, in The Invisible Man, Crime Without Passion, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, plays the part of a hack vaudeville mind-reader. When his faked act misses fire one night, he suddenly discovers that he has a real and appalling ability to see into the future. He correctly foretells one disaster and his fortune seems made. Except for one profitable Derby winner, further prophecies are all of death. His wife (Fay Wray) begins to think he is going mad and the public begins to think...
...excuse for negligent medical service at the Dillon Field House. Not until the day when sports are abolished at Harvard, can one cent be subtracted from the medical appropriation of the most stubborn budget if this should endanger the health of any student. Granted, it is enticing to hack here but the difficulties of coaching and travelling cuts are not accompanied by the threat of life and death...