Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this inflation?" gasped a baffled newshawk...
Significance. Like the baffled newshawk in Mr. Morgenthau's office, businessmen demanded: "Is this inflation?" Economists promptly gave them an answer: "It is not inflation but it is inflationary." Nobody knew exactly how much silver bullion was in the U. S. last week, but it was estimated at around 200,000,000 oz. When the Government takes this over it will tend to boost the world price for silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned...
...Pecked a newshawk: "Your Excellency, will Japan ask for naval parity or reduction by the most powerfully armed nations down to the Japanese level...
Said Mrs. Leach last week to Newshawk Pettey: "It was awful, being a child prodigy. I'm happier now. Of course, I would like to have a literary job ? if it paid good money. The trouble with high 'I. Q.' children is that they get through school too early. Nobody wants to hire a 15-year-old girl to do literary work no matter how many scales she has broken in Binet-Simon tests. I had to have a job when I got through college ? and I got one and kept...
...Paris correspondents Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 80-year-old mother of the President, was chatting of her son. Newshawk: "Did you ever have to spank him?'' Mrs. Roosevelt: ''No, I never did. But I did lock him in the closet once, and I thought he would kick the door down, he was so furious...