Word: hook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grantland Rice, usually calm, said: "Dempsey struck Sharkey two foul blows. ... As Sharkey apparently doubled up in pain, Dempsey followed with a left hook to the jaw and Sharkey . . . fell, squarely on his face, writhing as if in deepest agony...
...President, in Rapid City, took a telephone receiver off its hook, called Washington, D. C., got his connection in three seconds. The time was said to be a new record for the distance?some 2600 miles...
Scotland Yard, it seemed, must produce by hook or crook documents adequate to justify its ultimate chief, Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
Married. Helen Nancy ("Peggy") Green, 19, daughter of Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan, to Norval Tyrell, managing editor of the The Wolverine, Michigan College year hook; by elopement, at Bowling Green, Ohio. Governor Green telegraphed: "You surprised us a little...
...twilights are long here, and after the tents were pitched on the bluff and supper eaten in the cabin, there was light enough to hook--and lose--the first salmon. As it slowly darkened, the nighthawks began to circle above the stream, the deer stole out to drink, and ripples along the faster water began to weave their fantastic patterns of black velvet shot with silver. A whippoorwill, the first I remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen...