Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons that, although at least $5,000,000 is going to be spent every weekday for the next five years on rearming the United Kingdom, "it may be that in the end we shall find that even this has not represented the total amount this country has been compelled to spend...
...develop a line of legal reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment had been made by State's Attorney Swanson, thus presumably obligating...
...even such a hair-breadth distinction as this was not too small to be split by the hawk-eye wielder of the hammer at the Maintenance building. About a week age a brand new feel-proof device appeared at tached to the door. A package could get in, but an arm couldn...
...Lympne, England Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh zoomed away in their new orange & black monoplane Miles Hawk, turned up few hours later in Rome...
Upon new King George called last week "The Next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," as many call hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile a bona fide offer of $1,000,000 to go to Hollywood had been cabled to the Duke of Windsor & Mrs. Simpson (see p. 31) and, however remote acceptance was from their minds, it behooved the United Kingdom not to be niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with...