Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
...name of Glenn L. Martin is one of the oldest currently famed in U. S. aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became...
...Eagle and the Hawk (Paramount). What the sheik was to the comparatively repressed cinemaddicts of the early null the aviator is to audiences now. The contemporary hero does not entirely gain by the comparison. He is covered with grease and what he has to say for himself is frequently drowned out by the uproar of machine guns and propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate...
Because the main substance of the picture is true, original and, in its conclusion, daring. The Eagle and the Hawk is worth seeing. Gary Grant gives a sound performance as Jerry Young's bloodthirsty gunner. Jack Oakie's customary comedy role-of a young man overcome by breezy concupiscence-fits in well. Good shot: March, off for London on furlough, taking leave of Oakie, lounging in a bathtub on the lawn outside his quarters...
Before Hearst- In none of the third generation is there visible anything-ex-cept the geniality-of the extraordinary character of whom William Randolph Hearst was the only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia...