Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relaxed was Government disapproval of smutty books and pictures. Last week a jury in Judge Moscowitz's court found Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Roth, operators of the Golden Hind Press, Black Hawk Press and Fifth Avenue Book Shop, guilty of distributing obscene matter. Last' week Post Office inspectors sought to break up "obscene correspondence clubs," some of which have thousands of members mailing one another filthy pictures, erotic books...
...became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts pushed ahead, traveled 25 days across the desert, shooting a crow, a hawk and a quail for food, returning with horses from California to rescue the two families surviving...
This afternoon I was shown pp. 50 and 52 of TIME, Oct. 26, wherein Bishop Stewart of Chicago is referred to not once but twice as "the hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart." For your journal to refer to the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the seventh largest diocese of this Church in such a manner is more than a discourtesy. It is an insult, in vulgar and impertinent language, not only to the Bishop himself, but to the 55,000 or more members of his diocese, among whom I am one. It is intensely resented, and should be immediately...
...last week's two gatherings in his Pro-Cathedral accomplished nothing else they brought baldish, hawk-nosed George Craig Stewart once more to the attention of his Church. This churchman was once a bellboy in Chicago's Brevoort Hotel, whither he had fled from the home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious...
...other man. The present handsome, white-stone building, housing the largest congregation (2,000) in the diocese, contains a stained glass window with the figure of a priest blessing little children, a fresco showing a youth in red pants carrying St. Luke's Church to the Lord. Both hawk-nosed figures are unmistakable likenesses, to the Bishop's quiet satisfaction, of George Craig Stewart...