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Word: hook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle in his eye he took his coat and hat off a hook, and went back to his hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scandal | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard by Mrs. Snook in Aurora, Ill., over the radio hook-up installed to broadcast the President's speech. Said Mrs. Snook (TIME, May 26 1924): "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." ith the students of Smith College.... This conclusion is deduced from an examination of the magazines to which each college house subscribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

When there's storm, the telephone girl by hook or by crook somehow any how goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVALUATES BENEFITS OF CRIMSON NEWS TRAINING | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Boots in the brook, bait on the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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