Word: hawkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber* Zweiger an American citizen ? 5) How many states have produced presidents? Are all of those who have not, then, to be looked down upon ? 6) Does he know that "his" state ia named for a West Virginia River? 7) Has he ever viewed the panorama from Hawk's Nest, has he ever driven up the New River Gorge, has he ever seen anything in nature in the State of Ohio that can compare with the scenic beauty of West Virginia ? 8) Why he slurred over the request for information as to his feeling towards Ohio...
...bill for the erection of a monument at Kitty Hawk, N. C., commemorating the first successful flight in a power-driven plane by pioneer airman Orville Wright...
Clear-voiced,§ Mrs. Ferguson rose to speak. Her black eyes glittered like beads behind the octagonal lenses at either side of her hawk nose...
...business headquarters in Pittsburgh. A member of this group and a good friend of Senator Reed is Cyrus E. Woods,* who was recently nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission by , President Coolidge. Senator Reed was busily bestirring himself to secure Mr. Woods' confirmation in the Senate, when the hawk-eyed New York World intervened and thwacked him editorially last week...
...only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General Gordon at Khartum and Kitchener at Omdurman. Three times he was reported dead. He came to life again. With his brown spearmen he broke the British square...