Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, often with a copy of the first sheet off the press, the candidate trudges wearily back to his room, sighing over the thought that tomor- row will be the same. Alarm clocks fail to rouse the slumberer, but admonishing friends are always present to jeer the news hawk on his way. They fail to realize, he says to himself, that yesterday he was in the midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped up on the stage...
...should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely and instantly out of his most famed role. His hauteur, his bandy-legged walk, his hawk nose and his sloping shoulders suit a proud, gererous, clever banker even better than they do a British prime minister. After this picture the chances are even that most cinemaddicts will think of him in terms of Rothschild rather than of Disraeli...
...year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram the Rich who died around 950 A. D. and whose grandson built the castle of Habichtsburg or Habsburg ("Hawk's Castle") on the Aar near its junction with the Rhine. The House has never produced a great statesman or a great warrior. Two traits its sons have in- herited, a prognathous jaw and enormous physical fertility. They became successively Kings of the Germans, Emperors of the Holy Roman...
...state of alarm fast last week. He jailed great batches of union leaders, shut up their newspapers & headquarters, along with those of Fascists and Communists. Since even the newsboys on the streets were going for one another's throats. Fascist against Communist, he forbade the newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King...
...Army took to its new job like a hawk to the air. Its enthusiasm, however, did not relieve the anxiety of oldtime operators for the safety of young military pilots. Few of the Army men had had much bad-weather flying - an essential for regular mail transportation. Fewer still knew the perilous mountain routes they must follow through the thickest night without two-way radio. Even before the Army officially took over, the ousted operators were getting confirmations of their worst fears...