Word: newshawking
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...voice is unexpectedly high. At literary teas, to which he grimly goes, he suffers, becomes galvanized with shyness. He speaks English with a slight accent that sounds Irish rather than Dutch. Van Loon arrived in the U. S. at 21, was graduated from Cornell (1905), became successively newshawk, Ph.D., lecturer. A. P. correspondent in Belgium at the beginning of the War, he saw the siege of Antwerp, was nearly caught by the advancing German army. Nearly caught by poverty after the War, he tricked it by writing his first popular history, Ancient Man. Other books: The Story of Mankind...
...said that a few days before Mrs. McCormick died he had bought from Krenn, for $2,000 a month for life, his five-twelfths share of the estate and his interest in Krenn & Dato. Asked a newshawk...
...nine days last fortnight a "birth watch" of newshawks and cameramen camped outside the gates of the Morrow estate at Englewood, N. J., waiting to flash the news of the advent of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's second child. One day Mrs. Dwight Morrow and Mrs. Lindbergh were seen to leave the estate in Mrs. Morrow's Cadillac. A Hearst newshawk chased them to a Hudson River ferry. Just as the Morrow car rolled onto the boat, alert attendants slammed a gate in front of the newshawk's car. The birth-watchers telephoned their city desks that evidently...
...Russell Law under the name Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. Last week it was announced that these two famed firms would merge. Chairman of Albert Frank-Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. will be Adman Guenther. President will be Albert Frank's present head, able Frank James Reynolds, onetime newshawk, onetime West Pointer. The financial agency differs from the general agency chiefly in that its eye is ever focused on saving and investment, not upon greater & greater consumption. While the big financial agencies are tending to diversify (most also handle general advertising accounts) the bulk of their business is handling...
...British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...