Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lucia Marian Foster-Welch, keen-eyed, hawk-nosed 1237th Lord Mayor of Southampton, England, Admiral in the English Navy (ex-officio title conferred by King Henry IV), arrived on the Leviathan, which flew her Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour...
...Wildwood, N. J., a fish hawk whose nest was near the Country Club fell intc the habit "of soaring low over the golf links and clutching up a white ball now and then. Flapping slowly back to its nest, it would add the balls to a growing collection and sit on them, content. Perhaps it was the sport of capturing; perhaps the instinct for collecting (as crows and magpies will collect shiny or sparkling trash...
...Wildwood golfers were not amused. They caused the golf hawk's capture and petitioned their directors to destroy both bird and nest. It was then that this flatland fable became historical...
News of the golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest...
...golf-hawk was pardoned...