Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flares, torches, giant sparklers in the hands of hilarious, milling, cheering celebrants ushered in an eight-day revival of St. Paul's historic wintersports carnival, last Saturday night. Not since most of them were youngsters, 20 years ago, had the members of South St. Paul's* old "Hook 'Em Cow Club" had such a night to sing their song. Not since the national American Legion convention of 1924 had downtown St. Paul swarmed with such noisy, enthusiastic thousands...
Ousted from Sister Aimee's pulpit last autumn, Sister Rheba has filed a slander suit for $1,080,000 against her onetime colleague. Last week Rheba Crawford was battling Satan on her own hook, speaking over the radio, packing 1,600 people at a time in her new, small International Interdenominational Church, sermonizing on such subjects as "I Turn My Back" and "Tomorrow's Headlines" while her aged mother, a Salvation Army Lassie, strummed the guitar...
...canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in a garden, he was so slow and demanded so many sittings that the Princesses, their nursemaids, spaniels and a bright green parrot all broke into open revolt. Last week The Three Princesses was off its accustomed hook in Buckingham Palace and on the walls of the Manhattan Museum...
...considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected by St. Thomas' vestry sight unseen...
...Applauded Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record: "The C. of C. has misrepresented the businessmen of this country long enough. The C. of C. brought businessmen into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness, its violent and irresponsible attacks on the New Deal and its hook-up with interests which the average American businessman fears-and has reason to fear. . . . Chamber of Commerce thinking has been dominated by men . . . who could not or would not understand that in our system it is just as important to have customers who can buy as it is to have goods...