Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawk (Errol Flynn, Flora Robson, Claude Rains, Brenda Marshall, Henry Daniell; TIME...
Commanding the Blue Army was one of the service's most noted advocates of defense by attack: hawk-nosed Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum. By mid-morning of the first day, his divisions had made contact with the Blacks. All night there was rifle fire from outposts along the Grass. Next dawn, Hugh Drum started the ball rolling. His first target was the flower of the Black Army: the motorized, mobile, battle-scarred Fighting First. Stationed on the Black Army's north flank, the First failed to watch the bank of the St. Lawrence, off to their right...
Died. Max David Steuer, 69, slick, hawk-faced criminal lawyer who rescued many a careless bigwig and stumbling mobster from legal quicksands; of a heart attack; in Jackson, N. H. Born in Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime...
...National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...
Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood...