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hanker (medicine)


hanker


1. To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. "He was hankering to join his friend." (J. A. Symonds)

2. To linger in expectation or with desire.

Origin: Prob. Fr. Hang; cf. D. Hunkeren, hengelen.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Hart, William S. (sh)




born Dec. 6, 1870, Newburgh, N.Y., U.S.
died June 23, 1946, Newhall, Calif.

U.S. stage and Film actor.

He made his stage debut in 1889 and portrayed a series of western heroes in the plays The Squaw Man (1905), The Virginian (1907), and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1912). In 1914 he went to Hollywood, where his stern, taciturn performances made him a star and the first cowboy hero. Among his numerous films, many of which he wrote and directed, were The Passing of Two-Gun Hicks (1914-15), The Square-Deal Man (1917), Wild Bill Hickok (1923), and A Lighter of Flames (1923).


William S. Hart in The Gun Fighter, 1916-17.

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