Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people out of the total Empire population of 450,-000,000. The No. 1 delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign, bumbling, pipe-puffing Mr. Baldwin came lean, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number of 130. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's younger son, tooth...
Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire...
...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
...finally asked if he might have a ride. With Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 73. chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Aeronaut Wright climbed aboard the car which straddles the channel, grinned happily as it scooted along, throwing spray from its towing apparatus. (Next day Mr. Wright visited Kitty Hawk. N. C.; strolled about Kill Devil Hill where he and his late brother Wilbur made the first airplane flight, saw the memorial beacon being erected there...
...Barr. They begged the Park Commission's permission to occupy daily, between 10 a. m. and sunset, a 6-ft. strip of the streets bordering and enclosing Washington Square Park. They promised to keep 10 ft. away from street intersections and entrances to the park, neither to hawk nor solicit passersby, to make no litter, to pick up their campstools and easels and go home at nightfall. Foreseeing one obvious objection of officialdom the committee added in its petition that the moppets of Washington Square would be exposed to no nudes, no political propaganda...