Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PILGRIM HAWK-Glenway Westcott-Harper...
...Glenway Wescott of Wisconsin had lived in France for four years, was one of America's two or three most sensitive stylists and most promising novelists. The Pilgrim Hawk is his first volume of fiction since that year. It marks the end of several paralyzed years during which, work as he might, Wescott was unable to write novels at all. Says he now, "I have a great many stories to tell. If this simple story is as good as I hope, it will be a fresh start...
...life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...
...Captain Caution", the B plus show, is a two fisted, two-gunned, two-sabered story of American shipping in the war of 1812, a minor American edition of "The Sea Hawk." There are the same devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...
...years that many a businessman grew to think a war economy and price-fixing are inseparable. Already such businessmen see the corpulent outlines of price-fixing in the figure of New Dealer Leon Henderson, who sits on the Defense Commission (and now on the priorities board) as a price hawk, sounds off whenever a particular price seems too high...