Word: hawk
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Calhoun's undergraduate cockiness was not unwarranted; seven years after leaving Yale he was in Congress. In 1811 he became Henry Clay's lieutenant in the raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Fletcher, 65, who saw action in 14 World Series, four times as a peppery, slick-fielding Giant shortstop in the McGraw era, ten times as a wily, hawk-eyed Yankee coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fletcher joined the Yankees after four seasons (1923-26) as manager of the lackluster Phillies, turned down the chance to manage many another big-league team-including the Yankees-and stayed on until 1945 as one of baseball's highest-paid coaches...
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language...
Dorothy Gish and Don Hanmer handle their frightened and frightening roles, their near-hysterical relationship, with decided skill; in fact, their performances are far better than the play. Theatrically, The Man is too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard: it lacks the proper seriousness of a clinical study, the proper tingle of a thriller. It is not merely that the piece is too slow-moving. The Man depresses instead of exhilarates, sets its audience longing for good wholesome maniacs and fine fancy killers...