Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play possesses on unusual feature. The man who in the first act is very distinctly a comic relief character, turns out to be most important before the end. In the part of Dr. Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
Wherefore baseball's old guard viewed with pride and joy the announcement of a correspondence course for umpires, founded and conducted by Umpire Billy Evans, for 20 years a crouching, hawk-eyed figure of American League parks, in wintertime sport editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association in Cleveland. Vendors still cry: "You can't tell the players without a score-card." But no one ever shouted, "You can't tell Billy Evans...
...again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
Here is a writer, a young new U. S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains...
Once his automobile was wrecked. Singlehanded, to the terror of the trembling gas-hawk who had run into him, he tossed his own car out of a ditch...