Word: newshawking
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...Patients stand in line waiting their turn to sit in front of him. He twists their feet, cracks the joints, collects $1, calls "Next!" Cripples hobbling about Williamsburg testify that they were bed-ridden until Healer Locke treated their feet. A Syrian fruit dealer with fallen arches told a newshawk: "For 14 years I can't get up in the morn ing and dress myself. Nothing but agony and yelling 'Yih! Yih! Yih!' Now, by gees, I can stand and walk!" Said a farmer: "Four weeks ago I had such night sweats my wife had to wring...
...newshawk, Dicky Boy's mistress admitted he had not sung since. She thought he was waiting for the election...
...That's right, son." The Speaker recognizeda newshawk from the New York Times. "I'm a little older than you are, son, and politics is funny...
...last week was small, wrinkle-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the Governor's personal secretary and political handyman. What Mrs. Belle Moskowitz was to Alfred Emanuel Smith, what George Edward Akerson was to Herbert Hoover, what Edward ("Ted") Clark was to Calvin Coolidge, Louis Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor's town house on East 65th Street. Lacking personal ambition, Secretary Howe keeps...
Piqued by the sharp question of a U. S. newshawk, an old friend of Aristide Briand irritably replied, "Who is Mme Jourdan, Monsieur? She was the last, naturellement...