Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pert newshawk but Scotland Yard itself numbered the Brighton murders in an official announcement after the second was discovered: "In order to prevent confusion and loss of public interest in the original Brighton trunk crime, it seems necessary, in view of what has appeared in one or more London daily papers, that the public should be definitely informed that the head and arms in the original Brighton trunk crime have not been discovered. . . . Again, as a means of preventing confusion, perhaps the original Brighton trunk crime should be Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1 and the discovery on July...
...armful of books, who looked about 26. Gasped the lady: "Are you Mr. Chamberlain?" Actually Critic Chamberlain is 31 and ten years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher Adolph Ochs so far foreswore his prejudice against signed columns as to spread a boxed daily review over the top of three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like...
...Washington, Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Herald, gleefully squealed: "I'll give $20 for a copy of the Post!" Like a flash a newshawk was out of the office while his boss waited in a fever of anticipation. The Post, published by Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, had been squabbling with "Cissy" Patterson's Herald for more than a year. Only three weeks ago the Post had jeered at the Herald for publishing a vivid "eyewitness" description of an execution two hours before the condemned men went...
Even when the foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony...
Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...