Word: hawkinge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a melancholy admission for 38-year-old Heinz to make. For the first time Tom, Dick & Harry would have some kind of say in the company the Heinzes had built and controlled for three generations. Henry John had founded the business in 1869 by hawking horse-radish from...
At central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society.
Dead of Night (Ealing-Universal) is an unusual, British-made thriller which Universal is hawking in the U.S. with an unusual ad campaign. "The everyday phrases and superlatives of ballyhoo," say Universal's ballyhoo experts, "are completely inadequate to capture the mood, the depth, the excitement of this oddly...
For several weeks the Peronistas had had the run of the street. Three or four of their newsboys, accompanied by armed bodyguards, would parade the sidewalks, hawking the Nationalist Alianza, while their escorts ripped democratic emblems off the lapels of passersby. Last week the democrats were striking back. In brief...
Alioune Mamadou Kane came to Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir...