Word: hook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Hook...
Beloved Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, sister and chatelaine of Bachelor Tsar Boris, was last week, the house guest at Balmoral, Scotland, of Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
...until a Cambridge hook and ladder unit clamored onto the scene that the flames were localized in a spare scrap basket. No statement has since been issued as to the extent of the damage. The apparent loss consisted of one waste container...
...lives today in an apartment on a street called Linwood Place in St. Paul, Minn. Aged 68, he is tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week...