Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Didn't the President even say he was sorry you lost?" asked a newshawk...
...Only once last week did the U. S. President's sure sense of how to pluck the strings of Latin American hearts fail him completely. At a press conference at the U. S. Embassy he welcomed 50 Latin newshawks. Deftly he put them at their ease, took charge of the interview. When asked whether the U. S. would join the League of Nations (of which Argentina is a loyal adherent) he said, with a frankness which could provoke no antagonism, that he felt sure he could say the answer was "no." Then a hesitant newshawk in broken English asked...
Despite its fame among naturalists, Ward's is almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...
When Educator Day's election to Cornell's presidency was announced, a newshawk asked whether in the course of dispensing $27,921,557 in Rockefeller money to U. S. colleges and research agencies, he had ever given any to State-run Cornell...