Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well as to the first conquest...
...rock looms high, the grim reminder of the fate of the Princess Winona. Strangers passing by are inevitable told of the Indian girl and her love for Chatonska, bravest of her uncle's warriors, how with him away at battle she was wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed Matosapa, chief of a neighboring tribe, how, singing, she jumped to her death "and the place ever since has been known as Maiden Rock...
Singers able to breathe life into the role have been few and far between. First there was Minnie Hawk, a very ladylike Carmen compared to her successors. Then came Calvé, whose realistic interpretation won her the name of being the first singing actress. Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime. Mary Garden has done similar service in Chicago. Last week for the first time, the Metropolitan presented the Carmen of Maria Jeritza...
...more unfortunate that the College Library should have to pay a penalty for its liberality. By leaving so many books on open shelves in its reading rooms, by not employing more hawk-eyed attendants, and by permitting even comparatively rare books to be taken from the Library. Widener loses thousands of dollars. This in itself is bad enough, but when it be considered that no amount of money will replace many of the books, out of print or for other reasons unobtainable, the annual loss becomes appalling. Thus a lifetime of study and research on the part of a scholar...
...birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...