Word: hawkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Jefferson Davis mustered into the U. S. army Abraham Lincoln, head of a group of Illinois volunteers enlisting for the Black Hawk Indian...
...lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
Park--"The Night Hawk"--8.15 o'clock--Another play about a Magdelene. She's shipped to Kansas...
...Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors to wax prolific...
Died. Rafael Sabatini Jr., 19, only son of potent author Rafael Sabatini, creator of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; by accident while taking his mother to drive. The car overturned. Mrs. Sabatini was badly hurt...