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Word: newshawking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated by Brown University (1894). At Wellesley she taught Bible history before her call to the presidency of Mount Holyoke 32 years ago. A large, florid woman, she dresses in sombre clothes, wears low-heeled shoes, believes "no lady would smoke." Once she sharply-contradicted a newshawk who dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded by big collies called such names as "Lord Wellesley" and "Ladybird Holyoke." Her motto for her students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arms, Men & A Woman | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Isabel Drummond has been a teacher, business executive, public relations counsel, newshawk, editor, is now a Philadelphia lawyer. She started practice before she graduated from law school, was soon made woman counselor for Philadelphia's Legal Aid Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Married & Burned | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...disappointed newshawk: Can we say you banged the desk with your fists when you denied these resignation rumors? The Secretary: Yes-you can say I banged my desk-and you can also say there were tears in my eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Alphonse Capone cocked one blue-clad leg over another blue-clad leg in Chicago's Federal Court last week, and every newshawk in the courtroom* gasped in amazement. Snorkey wore no garters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Katherine Towle Parrott, 30, author (as Ursula Parrott) of best-selling Ex-Wife and Strangers May Kiss (she divorced Newshawk Lindsay Parrott in 1928); and Charles T. Greenwood, 41, Brooklyn banker; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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