Word: hawkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
...Ford sedan drove up to the Gettysburg, Pa. railroad station, and out stepped Henry Ford to stretch his legs. Station hawker: "Like to buy a history of the Battle of Gettysburg? Only a quarter." Mr. Ford: "Well, I know a great deal about that battle, but I'll take one." He fumbled for a coin, smiled, added: "We'll have to wait for my secretary. I haven't any money...
...England into Europe. By flying 150 mi. into France he won a ?4,000 prize. In 1912 he formed Sopwith Aviation Co. Ltd. which produced the Camels, Pups and Dolphins flown by Allied pilots in the War. After the War he took as partner his longtime test-pilot Harry Hawker, who in 1919 attempted the first transatlantic flight and was picked out of the sea off Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion...
...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...
...eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...