Word: newshawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...
...counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned on a newshawk who remarked, "Well, you won't resign," and snapped...
...John A. Kennedy, who went from Iowa to get a job on Hearst's Washington Herald, work up to his Universal Service. Plausible and pontifical, he is equally adept at slapping Congressmen on the back or awing them with suave dinners at the Metropolitan Club. Nominally a newshawk, he resigned temporarily from the Congressional Press Galleries in 1932 to swing around the country coaxing antiWorld Court commitments from Congressional candidates, lately resigned again to head the latest Hearst offensive against the Court...
...Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) keeps weekly Thursday night dates on a bench in front of the New York public library with her popcorn-chewing reporter friend Peter Dawes (Fred MacMurray). When her true love, Charles Gray (Ray Milland), sails away without revealing his identity as an English lord, the newshawk exposes the romance on his tabloid's front pages, untruthfully dubs Marilyn as a "no-girl" who spurned British title and fortune. With this publicity Marilyn overnight becomes Manhattan's most notorious and highly paid night-club entertainer. Her career leads her to England, to Charles...
...Rayna, to make up his mind about Communism, Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that he was "no longer a newspaper man." What journalism has lost, the quality magazines have gained. Mr. Sheean has become a "personality" in his own right...