Word: hook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such was his end: the pious Jew apostate preaching salvation in Israel. They stoned him at street corners, kicked his body and head. Dovvid Pollock saw his handiwork and hung himself on a stout hook...
...York City to be reprimanded. In 1917, one of that city's garbage-reduction plants was destroyed. A special permit was granted by the War Department to dump garbage at sea. Great scows heaped with offal are towed out of New York Harbor, out beyond Sandy Hook, to a point 14 miles from the coast of Long Island and 22 miles from New Jersey. There the offal is consigned to Father Neptune...
...Saint Albans, England. A great gallery came out from London to see "Long" James Barnes, Open Champion of Great Britain (TIME, July 6), play a 36-hole match against Abe Mitchell, watched him hook, slice, dig, and go down to defeat 7 up and 6 to go, after winning only 3 holes...
...dawn of a morning last week, 17-year-old Gertrude Ederle took to the water off Battery Park, Manhattan, swam for approximately 21 miles (in 17 hrs. 11 min. 30 sec.) until she encountered land at Sandy Hook...
...schools let out, the shipyards closed, the people swarmed to see. Miss Leitch let down first under the annoyance of unruly spectators, came grimly back from 2 down at the 34th to square at the 36th hole. Her second on the 37th was a hook, her third too delicate, her putt too great to sink. Meantime, Miss Wethered arched two shots true to the green, putted firmly past the hole as a sound golfer does, putted exactly back to its center as only a champion...