Word: hook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Harrison & Doughton went promptly to the White House to get instructions as to just how Franklin Roosevelt wanted his millionaires taken: gently in nets, with hook-line-&-sinker, or by harpoon. What he told them was not, of course, revealed. But Washington soon guessed that harpooning Old Deal millionaires while gently netting or releasing New Deal millionaires, was going to call for nice piscatorial skill. Before sailing time on Wednesday the fishermen very properly refused to name their quarry. They left that to their guide and first witness, Secretary Morgenthau. But Senator Harrison announced politely: "I am sure that...
...throw himself into his shot like a hockey player, was overanxious last week to substantiate his reputation. On his first try he hit his ball thickly, dubbed it a mere 276 yd. His second, cleanly but cautiously hit, wem only 18 yd. farther. His third was a terrific hook, 320 yd. into the rough...
...addition to his prize for the longest single drive, he got $150 for the best total distance - 920 yd. 19 in. Snead weighs 170 lb., uses a full swing and beautifully balanced body shift, usually hits a low, long-rolling ball with a slight hook. Second prizes went to Bruce Coltart of Philadelphia, for an aggregate of 890 yd. 34 in., Horton Smith of Oak Park, Ill. for a drive...
Featuring two orchestras and a floor show under the direction of "Stuff" Smith from the Onyx Club in New York, the Lowell affair has the added attraction of Rudolf Friml's orchestra broadcasting over a coast-to-coast hook-up. Yours and your partner's feet will shuffle over the national air waves via N.B.C. from 12:30 to 1 o'clock if you attend...
When the President returns from placid southern waters, he may be surprised to find that the men on the Hill can be even harder to keep on the hook than the fighting tarpon. For as revenues fail and the President demands killing sums for relief, the prospects of new taxation are heightened--and at this suggestion the Congressional barometer falls. "Dependable Jimmy Byrnes" and long suffering Joe Robinson are both demanding cuts in appropriations and when these two stalwarts kick against the pricks we may expect wholesale defection in the Cherokee strip...