Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foregoing statements are not only false, but like half-truths are infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence...
...picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce a musical comedy. Four raffish members of an itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night...
Sixty members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing over a nationwide hook-up of the National Broadcasting Company at 6 o'clock on Friday, November 17. The concert will be one of a series of programs marking the occupancy of the new NBC studios in Radio City...
...Stunting by Germany's famed Ace Ernst Udet, who can pick a handkerchief from the ground with a hook on his wingtip...
...chase a moving bait. Fisherman Francis H. Low knew, when he learned from market fishermen where some big tuna had been sighted, that the thing to do was anchor his 22-ft. seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five hours, while his captain quickly...