Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Boles), dispatched to investigate the doings of the vigilantes, falls in love with Rosita and eventually helps defend her family hacienda against a gang led by Charles Bickford, belongs to the sorry tradition of pre-War operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance salesman, engage in vaudeville patter in the Golden Nugget Saloon; and those in which Miss Swarth out, with or without the somewhat tremulous accompaniment of Mr. Boles, sings // I Should...
Good shot: a sailor in the battle scene with his neck pinned between the ship's rail and a grappling hook...
...with him on occasional holidays but keeping a separate house, following her chosen career as he followed his. One fine day, when Bennett was off on a cruise, she knew she was going to have a baby. His reply to her news: "Very sorry. Very glad. Shall catch boat Hook of Holland, be with you tomorrow." When the baby (a girl) was born. Dorothy and the child moved into Bennett's house, were acknowledged as his family...
...dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John Taylor Arms. His annual prize for the best piece of technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree...
...Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state of the Turkish Sultans. Last week in Egypt, key to the Suez Canal. Britain's historic policy of dominating the now officially styled "Independent Kingdom of Egypt" rose up to knock spots off any moral case Britain has against Italian Imperialism...