Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used news of but one city you would have been surfeited with accusations of failure to give proper recognition to news of the other. I hail from those parts and I know. . . . FRANK J. NEWELL...
...Father of New Zealand but its Baby is Thomas Rodgers of Rangitikei on North Island. Last week Mr. Rodgers cut his 92nd birthday cake, gave of it generously to a delegation which arrived to hail "The First White Baby Born In New Zealand...
...Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed grunts...
...suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow well met of any mid-western Rotary Club who spends his time running prize fights, charity bazaars, and community protest meetings while his paint and varnish factory goes into the red and family difficulties come to a crisis...
...Author. Englishman Percy Wyndham Lewis was born in Maine, in 1886. Precocious, at 15 he studied art at London's Slade School, few years later philosophy under Bergson at the College de France. In 1914 he exhibited paintings in London that led Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time...