Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hook lives with his father & mother in Ironwood, Mich. Three other Hook boys have families of their own. With one exception, the Hooks have not found worldly success. Brother Lawrence Hook, father of one, was on relief until last June. So were Father Michael Hook, Mother Mary Hook and Brother Joe Hook until this month, when Joe got a job. Still on relief last week were Brothers Herman and George Hook, each the father of two. The single exception to the general Hook haplessness is Brother Frank, father of two, a onetime city commissioner, county supervisor and municipal judge...
...excitement lasted precisely 141 seconds. Levinsky rose from his stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts of five, five and four. After the fourth knockdown, instead of falling on the floor, Levinsky collapsed on the ropes in the corner of the ring. Dazed and beaten, he muttered something which the referee mercifully took for a superfluous confession that the fight was over...
...minutes later publisher and Governor marched out. "Politics wasn't discussed," said "Gene" Talmadge, casually snapping his suspenders. "Just business. We never mix the two. He assured us the money was on a hook. If we don't get it, nobody else will...
Then Governor Talmadge marched down to cement the entente with Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture. By the time he finished that interview it was apparent that if Georgia's $19,000,000 was comfortably on a hook, it was also going to stay there for a time. The announced reason of Chief MacDonald and Secretary Wallace for holding up Georgia's road allotment was that Georgia's Highway Department is not equipped to cooperate-that the one helpful engineer in the Department had been fired. Hence Governor...
...18th Century, Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and Josephine wage their own private wars against the ravages of time while a woman hangs by her chin from a hook to reduce her "goozle" and two men at a windlass lace up the corset of the mural's only fat woman...