Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship docked in New York last week both of them wanted to keep it. The ship's captain, called to arbitrate, tossed a shilling, sent the bird to Staten Island. Ornithologists identified the bird, which the ship's crew had called an "ice owl," as an American hawk owl, a dark, small-eyed, falcon-like creature slightly smaller than a crow, which breeds in the Arctic, sometimes winters as far south as the U. S., never goes to sea if it can help...
...Hawk-nosed, bemonocled Conservative Sir Austen, Knight of the Garter, then crossed from the Government to the Opposition side of the House, sat down beside Mr. Jones, warmly pressed his hand and sympathized in his trouble...
Another statement in your article preceding your barrage of inaccuracy and fiction concerning the writer is your reference to Honorable John N. Garner wherein you mention the Farley expedition was for the purpose to rediscover '"little old hawk-beaked Vice President Garner." This statement in itself to fair-minded people stamps you as thoroughly lacking in the proper attitude of mind or even the respect a wayfaring man pays to the Vice President of the U. S. Mr. Garner is a highly respectable, patriotic gentleman, having served his country 30 years, brilliantly, successfully and courageously, at Washington. A good...
...have only Mr. Ruben's word for it that "Ace of Aces" is not plagiarism, but anyone who remembers "Wings," "The Sky Hawk" and other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might...
Looking on hawk-eyed at all this was an earnest German-born New Yorker named John Peter Zenger. Onetime apprentice to Publisher William Bradford of New York City's only newspaper, the New York Weekly Gazette, he had set himself up as a printer, though continuing to contribute occasionally to the Gazette. When William Bradford, numbed by official censorship, saw Printer Zenger's frank account of the election he threw up his hands, refused to print it. John Peter Zenger forthwith started a newspaper of his own, the New York Weekly Journal, came out next week with...