Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban...
...Provincetown citizens gathered to greet the President, give him an expensive ship's model. But said Skipper Roosevelt to his crew: "Let's fool the Press and go on to Gloucester without stopping." So on they went, driving through the rough dark to drop the hook at midnight...
...first round Schmeling, a 2-to-1 favorite, although he was outweighed 189 to 203 lb., was surprised when Baer, instead of sparring cautiously, planted a thumping left hook to the head, followed it with looping dangerous rights. Confused, Schmeling backed up against the ropes, managed to get in one crashing right to the chin before the round ended. In the second round, grinning whenever Schmeling reached his face with short jolting punches, Baer was still forcing the fight, but in the third he was less aggressive. Referee Arthur Donovan warned him for hitting low, awarded the round to Schmeling...
...decade ago the Senate Public Lands Committee was hunting official corruption. Scandal was in the air and Senator Walsh was out to prove by concrete facts an ugly hook-up between the oil business and the U. S. Government. Last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had no such tangible mission. It was probing the whole intricate subject of private banking, with the House of Morgan as Exhibit A. Against that firm was no specific charge of wrongdoing. Official corruption was not even hinted. Unquestioned was the personal honesty of its 20 partners. Yet the House of Morgan...
...States. At that rate (surely below actual) the U. S. would realize some $110,000,000 per year from beer. In 23 days beer-bibbers in New York contributed $2,290,686 in Pennsylvania $1,363,704, in Wisconsin $1,314,387. By some hook, crook or accident Dry Kansas paid a Federal beer...