Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Search for Beauty might have begun as a satire on Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's hook-up of health and sex, but it ended by emulating it. Exhibited in an elaborate calisthenic routine are chesty males in shorts; slim females in bathing suits...
...added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat one year hence...
...Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years...
Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...
...England's outlaws and murderers have been placed in his care, and he has been present at every execution except one since he became sheriff. In his collection of lethal weapons and souvenirs of notorious criminals and the crimes they have perpetrated throughout New England, is a splicing hook to make the noose fit more snugly around the victim's neck, and the famous letter given to Sheriff Fairbairn by a condemned murderer just before he went up the steps to the gallows. This letter warns that frequenting saloons or touching liquor in any form will sooner or later lead...