Word: hawk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anniversary of the airplane. On the same day of the year 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, sons of a clergyman of Dayton, O., in a curious boxlike machine made largely of wood, wire and canvas, propelled by a small gasoline engine, rose from a giant sand dune at Kitty Hawk, N. C, and made an epochal flight of 12 seconds. Taking the air a second time, they flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. The young inventors had braved the derision of all their neighbors, the scepticism of the world at large to create the first airplane. And the 266 miles...
...hammock"; Frobisher likewise; only the ghost of Captain Kidd is still burying treasure, only a phantom Long John Silver is still digging it up. Writers of the present day can submerge themselves in the atmosphere of other times or more primitive climes and so produce a Sea-Hawk or a Lord Jim. But among the furnaces, the black smoke, and the steel girders of modern America, "where are the snows of yesteryear...
Veterans. Larded in with the national play at Germantown were matches in the National Veterans' Lawn Tennis Championship. For the third year in succession, Dr. Philip B. Hawk, hardy Philadelphian, was winner. The other veteran finalist was Captain A. J. Gore, a Washingtonian of wide girth, who tired fast after a brave start. Score...
...there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep The Stupidities in the headlines. If he is successful, the patient public parts with the aforesaid $4.40 and the production thus makes money. Though the duck incident herein outlined may seem farfetched...
...HAWK-Rafael Sabattml- Houghton, Mifttn...