Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight, hawk-nosed and caustic immigrant from Texas ranch country, Walker got to the big city for the first time in 1919. Short on experience, but well-stocked with self-confidence, he took just half an hour to talk himself into a job on the New York Herald (now the Herald Tribune). By 1928, he was city editor. And for seven loud years, he steered the newsroom through a stirring and gaudy time. Speakeasies flourished. Lindbergh had just hopped the Atlantic; Babe Ruth had just hit 60 home runs. J. Pierpont Morgan posed for photographers with a lady midget...
...last four years." The market for such "news" is dwindling these days. The Worker is a failure, a Red newspaper that is printed but not read. Its claim to 15,963 paid circulation is as phony as its news. At week's end loyal party workers hawk unsold copies through Harlem, the Lower East Side slums, low-rent housing projects...
Hello, Everybody. Obviously produced on a G-string, This Was Burlesque has succeeded in reviving for mixed company some of the stag-night atmosphere in all its raunchy glory. It is like old times. Candy butchers, though a little self-consciously, hawk their dubious wares up the aisles during intermission, the world's worst orchestra is in the pit, the scenery is ghastly, the lighting garish, and the choreography might have been devised by a dancing bear. During the "Hello. Everybody" number, one of the magpie-voiced chorines flounces down to the footlights and squeals classically, "We will shimmy...
Carbon & Kitty Hawk. He was born in 1861 and, of course, was given the best sort of education. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16, switched to Harvard, graduated magna cum laude in 1882 (the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perish the name, was born), went on to Zurich for further studies. Later, he journeyed into Pennsylvania looking for likely investments in oil and gas. Cabot concluded that there was money to be made in byproducts from the refining process. As usual, his judgment turned out to be correct. In 1887 he began manufacturing carbon black as a coloring...
...father told me that man is going to fly, and when he flies he will fly farther and faster than the birds. My father was a very farseeing man." Godfrey Cabot was bitten by the flying bug shortly after the Wright brothers lifted off a hill at Kitty Hawk. After the outbreak of World War I, Cabot pestered Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels into letting him try for the Naval Air service. "I wanted to swat the Germans," he explained. Cabot was 54, but he passed his test and flew antisubmarine patrols around Boston Harbor in a seaplane hunting...