Word: newshawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintained that Miss Livingstone did not own the Club, was there as paid hostess only in order to gather material for her forthcoming work, With Livingstone in Darkest America. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in Harlem Prison, to which she was conducted by press & police forthwith. One newshawk reported the warden as greeting her: "Miss Livingstone, I presume...
When she was in Boston six years ago a newshawk discovered that she was married to Accompanist Dandré. Pavlova had kept it secret for 17 years. Her relations with the Soviet Government were known to be unfriendly, Red Moscow regarding her as "a darling of the aristocrats...
...decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege for news of the impending wedding. But the "plot" had by no means been "smashed...
...winning the four major golf championships, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was easily Sportsman of the Year. The Nobel Prize winners, especially the onetime newshawk Sinclair Lewis who is the first U. S. litterateur to receive the accolade, were Men of the Year. But the work for which they were honored was done in other years...
...Treasury's Bureau of Industrial Alcohol announced the discovery of a new denaturant: alcotate. It will not kill or blind but will render industrial alcohol exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...