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Among the foreign laborers who helped dig the Panama Canal was a hawk-nosed, angry-eyed Frenchman named Paul Gauguin. For about $4 a day he swung a pick ax, and earned enough money to go on to Martinique. Gauguin was beating a strategic retreat from the sun-spangled Seine of eight-Century French Impressionism to the blue and blood-red lagoons of Hivaoa in the Marquesas...
...national noise of Britain early on a winter morning is a compound of hawk, cough and nose-blow. Wrote 17th-Century Doctor-Author Sir Thomas Browne: "The ancient inhabitants of this island were less troubled with coughs when they went naked and lived in caves...
Since most of them could tell a hawk from a handsaw, most picked Russia (an Aquarian) as the new No. 1 European power. For the U.S. (another Aquarian), they saw the No. 1 Western Hemispheric spot, all mixed up by an annoying wave of accidents, sex poaching, labor strife, inflation and political ferment, caused by the unfortunate fact that Uranus is moving through the sign of Gemini...
...Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, sat nervously watching the second hand of the studio clock. As zero hour approached, he raked his fingers through his bushy hair, stripped off his tie and collar. Then, with a cough and a hawk, he stepped up to the mike. Boss Ed, aware of the radio success of New York City's Fiorello LaGuardia, was starting a weekly radio talk of his own, addressed to Chicagoans...
...that milled into the Corso Umberto I were many who had foregone New Year's festivities in favor of a new shirt or a pair of cotton drawers. Carabinieri, forming a half hedgehog around the store, issued numbered admission tickets. Vulturous black marketeers swooped on the scene to hawk phony tickets at $8 apiece...