Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society in general) refuse to interest ourselves in the lives of maltreated and disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison for life...
Network Member. In Long Beach, Calif., Theater Proprietor Milt Arthur discovered an ardent fan laying cables in a trench under the fence of a drive-in movie, learned that he was trying to hook them to the theater's sound system so that he could hear as well as see the movies from his nearby home...
...small fry is to be found in the quality of the rascals themselves and the brand of mischievous nonsense they generate. They are good kids without being goody-goody; they have a genius for getting into jams, but are ingenious at getting out. They may build a gang-size hook and ladder, charge downhill in it and fling sky-high all pedestrians along...
...know you are all eager to lunch on the CRIMSON'S latest sartorial banquet. Here is a variegated bouquet of spring fashions straight from square dealers. Please look at the pictures and read the captions before tearing this up and hanging it on the little hook in the next room...
...have not declined," nonchalantly pontificated, "The essence of good manners consists in putting people at ease." Like its author, Etiquette has mellowed since it first went to press in 1922. A Post host of today, unlike those in earlier versions, no longer need feel remiss for not providing a hook for a guest's razor strop and a sign announcing, "If there is not enough hot water, please ring three times." As for the ladies, the post-1920's Post concedes that it is no longer incorrect to dine alone with a gentleman in his apartment, but cautions...