Word: newshawked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smart is the Prince of Wales?" pecked a newshawk, well knowing that Sir Lionel Halsey, Comptroller of H. R. H.'s household has denied officially that Edward of Wales ever had any dealings with Jake the Barber...
...Interior cut will take $8,000,000 off the 1932 budget. Next Departments for presidential pruning: Agriculture, Post Office, Treasury. ¶Last week President Hoover engaged a new literary secretary to replace French Strother, resigned. He was George Aubrey Hastings, 46, of New York, oldtime newshawk and press agent. His title will be Executive Clerk instead of Administrative Assistant and he will do the research and "ghostwriting" the President requires for public pronouncements, in addition to supervising the President's quasi-official conferences and commissions on child health. Press photographs showed him to the country wearing a little dark...
...time when the late "Hildy" Johnson (TIME, April 20) got an exclusive tip on the conviction of one Norman Cook for murder; he stole into the vacated jury room, wrote "not guilty" on a dozen bits of paper, scattered them on the floor where he knew a Tribune newshawk would find them. Next morning, before the verdict was returned, the Herald & Examiner was out with COOK FOUND GUILTY while the duped Tribune blazoned the fake verdict. Another great scoop was the 1920 street car strike, which the Herald & Examiner got from a grateful union delegate whom it had unconsciously flattered...
...same day Alfonso XIII landed from his cruiser at Marseilles, took the train to rejoin his family. Reporters hopped aboard at every stop but were firmly excluded from the Royal compartment. In the diner one newshawk peeped into the Royal casserole, reported that Alfonso was lunching off a truffled pigeon...
...Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then popular tune, "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You." Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth were married...