Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last straightaway, with 40 yd. to go, Venzke unleashed a spurt, split the tape 6 ft. in front. To Cunningham went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner set a new world record: 3 min. 49.9 sec. In the final track event a hawk-nosed, granite-jawed Syracuse junior, Edward ("Obie") O'Brien, furnished another thrill. When he went to Syracuse, he was a sprinter. Coach Tom Keane, developer of many a sterling quarter-miler, drew O'Brien aside, told him to forget sprinting, promised him instead the Olympic quarter-mile title...
With even greater care, Sir Austen went on to scrutinize the Prime Minister's conduct, remarks and policy respecting the Ethiopian Question (TIME, Dec. 30). Of portly, pipe-sucking Mr. Stanley Baldwin's confused statements in the House of Commons on that occasion, austere, hawk-featured Sir Austen Chamberlain concluded at crushing length: "I recall no comparable pronouncement by the head of the Government on a fundamental issue of defense in the 40 years of my parliamentary experience. Is it to be wondered at that some of us who are not alarmists, some...
...Dumbleton Hall in Evesham, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Monsell forgot happily all about the London Naval Conference which is doubly deadlocked (TIME, Dec. 30). Monsell's second daughter is learning Tibetan and had many interesting things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired...
Britannia: "Help!" In the weary hours of debate preceding midnight teary Sir Austen's tearless half-brother Neville Chamberlain, the hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer, went a long way toward announcing what policy in the Ethiopian crisis is now to be followed by Britain. "If the League of Nations should decide that oil sanctions should be applied." said Mr. Chamberlain, "and that they can be effective-and should we be satisfied that all members of the League are not only ready to give us assurances but are also prepared to take their part in meeting...
...Colonel", "Break-it-up", "Hawk-eye" -- all these are familiar epithets applied to Mr. Apted in the Crimson. When the students steal a bell clapper, Mr. Apted is discredited before he starts work on the case. If he apprehends the practical jokers, he is cursed roundly in undergraduate editorials. If he fails to detect the men implicated he is sneered at and reviled...