Word: newshawking
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...made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell you that." Pursing a cramped smile, she mumbled "Please tell them that Eva Tanguay is all right. Or say nothing-that...
...Father Summers' Woolworth Building laboratory a newshawk grasped an electrode in each hand as if he were experimenting with a toy shock machine. The electrodes were attached to an apparatus resembling a radio set, inside which were two balanced electrical circuits, with a two stage amplifier on the input side hooked up to a recording milliammeter. Any electrical agitation the newshawk betrayed under emotional stress would jiggle the milliammeter, make a needle correspondingly scratch a chart...
Producing five cards, Father Summers asked the newshawk to choose one in his mind, then deny, card by card, that he had selected any of them when they were reshown him. Watching the needle, Father Summers flipped the five cards, heard the newshawk's answers, then declared: "Your card was the three of diamonds." The newshawk was compelled to admit...
Nevertheless, the drive for advertising continued under the leadership of Maurice L. Farrell, senior partner of F. S. Smithers & Co. and chairman of the Exchange's committee on public relations. An old-time newshawk who was once managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, Broker Farrell last week won a heroic victory. For the first time in 144 years, except for a brief period during the War when it unbent as a patriotic duty to participate in prompting the sale of Liberty Bonds, the New York Stock Exchange published paid advertisements...
...Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining only as a director. In his place, not as president but as general manager, the company put Clarence Leich, part owner of two A. B. C. stations in Evansville, Ind. To a newshawk who asked reasons for his resignation, Mr. Insull snapped testily: "Sir! The company's statement stands. It speaks for itself...