Word: hawke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a tortuous march among the Houses, the crowd sang, yelled, and cheered the entire first team and subs individually. The 45 minute soiree was plentifully spiced with speeches by Vern Miller, bulky ball-hawk. Jayvee Captain Bill LaCroix, Coaches Clark and Harlow, and other Crimson luminaries. Harlow drew extra acclaim when he named Harvard perhaps the only college where the football players are still an integral part of the student body, rather than an exclusive elite...
...sedate Los Angeles Philharmonic met competition last week-and did not much like it. The upstart who provided the competition was a hawk-eyed, gloomy-looking U.S. composer-conductor, Werner Janssen, who, well in advance of the Philharmonic's opening, led his 48 musicians through their first concert of the season...
There once more Byron could be close to the Shelley circle, which had gained a new recruit in dark, hawk-nosed, piratical Edward Trelawny (The Adventures of a Younger Son) who, to Byron's annoyance, looked and acted like a Byron hero. Trelawny discovered that Byron had nicknamed Shelley "The Snake...
...hawk-eyed collectors who know a Pennsylvania spatterware spittoon from a New England Paul Revere soup ladle, Norristown's antique show, held a flight of stairs above an old market where bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers sell their produce, offered as much good hunting as a well-stocked game preserve. Its gaily painted kitchen cabinets, dower chests, desks and tables, Bethlehem painted glass, grotesque Germanic Toby jugs and brightly colored tinware are far more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England. Their artistic flavor was well represented by Norristown's reconstructed old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch country...
Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...