Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haakon Hawk...
...Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal} and his successor, lean, hawk-nosed John Dana Wise, the Times-Dispatch got back on its feet. Last year, with a circulation of 82,176, it was not far behind the News Leader...
Last week TNEC heard why improving technology makes jobs from the No. 1 inheritor of that art: lean, hawk-faced Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co., Henry's only son. It was two days after the 28,000,000th Ford had run off the assembly line in Edgewater, N. J. that he sat down before TNEC's microphone...
...hummed the riff once and the Hawk used it for a full hour in the most relaxed and sincere style that I've heard since his One Hour with Red McKenzie eleven years ago. But Hawk agreed with me that the stuff today is, definitely not relaxed or sincere like it used to be, to wit: Count Basie's rough house rhythm, Jimmy Dorsey's twittering saxophone, and Kostelanetz's weeping violin cadenzas. He went on to say that he reads my column faithfully every week and shows it around Gotham, where they're beginning to realize that Harvard guys...
...back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet's muzhiks and rabotniks (peasants and workers) have so far given no hint that such an invitation might be forthcoming, Russia's war against Finland has given Whites all over the world new hope. In January tall, hawk-faced Boris Sergievsky, Russian aviator in World War I and now one of the best test pilots in the U. S., sounded the Whites' battle cry: "We who did not flee from Russia but only retreated, our weapons in our hands, are ready now to return." Up to last...