Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught by a CRIMSON newshawk at an early hour this morning in a sink of iniquity in South Boston, Gregory Augustus Grupp '08, former CRIMSON editor, hailed the CRIMSON news competition as the one essential thing for all undergraduates in Harvard College...
Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...
John Steven McGroarty, onetime newshawk, is poet laureate of California by act of the Legislature. Three months ago Californians gave him another distinction when they elected him to Congress. Last week he won for himself still another distinction when he beat President Roosevelt by 24 hours in getting a "social security" measure to Congress. Said Laureate-Congressman McGroarty of his bill...
...48th birthday last week Alexander Woollcott was still enough of a newspaper reporter to go to Flemington, N. J. to cover the fourth week of the Hauptmann trial for North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy...
...vice-versa. She becomes notorious as the "No Girl" and while drowning her sorrow is persuaded to cash in on her fame by appearing at a night club. She does and her casual manner makes her a sensation. After another crack at the Englishman she returns to the newshawk and popcorn. It's all rather simple, wholesome and amusing--worth the trip across the soft receptiveness of the Common...