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...they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with its chief personage-usually a hawk-faced great-grandmother, who will offer you dirty tea and whine for a shilling-you will find that none can remember when any ancestor of the band first "took to woods." They have no legends...
...Mencken went to Boston and applied for a peddler's license. He was offered his choice of two licenses. The first permitted him to sell bones, grease and refuse matter. The second gave him leave to hawk anything he chose except fish, fruit or vegetables. Mr. Mencken promised not to violate these provisions, received his license. Arthur Garfield Hays telephoned Dr. Chase and asked him if he would buy an American Mercury if Mr. Mencken offered one for sale. It was Dr. Chase's silver coin that Editor Mencken popped into his mouth...
...play possesses on unusual feature. The man who in the first act is very distinctly a comic relief character, turns out to be most important before the end. In the part of Dr. Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
Wherefore baseball's old guard viewed with pride and joy the announcement of a correspondence course for umpires, founded and conducted by Umpire Billy Evans, for 20 years a crouching, hawk-eyed figure of American League parks, in wintertime sport editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association in Cleveland. Vendors still cry: "You can't tell the players without a score-card." But no one ever shouted, "You can't tell Billy Evans...
...again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...