Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What are you going to do for the Stock Exchange, Mr. Bernays?" asked a newshawk...
...retorted the newshawk...
More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...
With an umbrella, two walking sticks and an escort of 15 newshawks, Novelist Herbert George Wells strode up & down the deck of the Bremen as she steamed into New York Harbor. "Did you know that Rasputin's daughter is on the boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin...
...President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army, 2) hoarding steel in case of war, and 3) constructing naval auxiliaries. "The junk piled up in American backyards during five years of depression," wrote he. "is helping to forge...