Word: hooke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sixth time in his political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild night off Sandy Hook with a small victory for everybody concerned...
...think you have done a perfectly splendid job in TIME, March 22, on the Cancer Army. The way you hook together one interesting incident to another movement produces a swing that even in medical problems becomes fascinating...
...President Hook also married the boss's daughter, Leah Verity...