Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive years in the State to be eligible for the Governorship. Husky, mop-haired "Tom" Moodie is an oldtime itinerant newshawk whose restless feet have carried him through newspaper shops from Cleveland to San Francisco to New Orleans. For ten years he has lived chiefly in North Dakota, the last four as editor of his own paper at Williston. But in 1930 the urge to move took him to Minneapolis for a time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which...
...reporters continued to question Leader Dietz, an excited mechanic from Pittsburgh finally became so upset that he seized a newshawk by the lapel, shook him vigorously and shouted: "So you are worried about whether it is un-American to vote for Hitler? Well, let me tell you this! A vote for Hitler-well it's all in one bag-Hitler and Germany...
...Said a newshawk: "Do you like to talk about other things than Science...
...dead at contact, and therefore lose the extra mass represented by their energies of motion. But with the change of mass there is a change of energy, and, as the blackboard showed at the end of an hour, the two are precisely equal. When the lecture was over a newshawk scuttled up to the blackboard, seized the piece of chalk which Dr. Einstein had laid down, carried it off proudly as a trophy...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...