Word: hook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to know about that ride. In the first place wouldn't it have been better to take an ambulance, a fire engine, or even a patrol wagon? Of course it is rather hard to keep up an appearance of dignity while swinging on the back end of a hook and ladder, but who could have guessed the identity of such a daring passenger, unless the Dawes pipe had been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington...
Thursday, August 20--Morning train to the Hague. Continue on afternoon train to Rotterdam and night service to London via Hook and Harwich...
With the exception of Ernest Torrence as Hook the cast was on the whole previously undistinguished. Each in his own way contributed brilliantly to the whole. The direction of Herbert Brenon gave heart once more to those who still argue that there is imaginative intelligence in the picture industry...
...young that they never saw Maude Adams at all. Other people matter, of course, but not as much as the youngish ones. They all loved Miss Miller. They never noticed that her voice was a shade shallow and twangy, or that Wendy was a mite too old, or Hook a spot stagey. Being modern children, they might have been disappointed had the company been more impromptu and not quite so technically competent...
...also", continued Dean Briggs, "because there is more hook in an hour examination than in a three-hour examination...