Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
From Sandy Hook to Seal Rocks last week, U. S. publishers hailed with delight the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision outlawing the punitive State tax on gross advertising revenue by which the late Huey Long hoped to make all Louisiana newspapers with a weekly circulation above 20,000 toe his political line. In the office of the New Orleans Item-Tribune the tone of the jubilation was almost personal, for the Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom...
...talking for Mitten Manage ment," he shouted. "I have been damn ing it for years. ... I'd hook up with the Devil if that would help in this situa tion." Realizing that the reference to his new ally was hardly complimentary, Mayor Wilson hastily explained that he meant no disparagement of Dr. Mitten...
...opinion that the leaders of Britain's General Strike were liable to suit for heavy damages so scared them as to become a major factor in their prompt decision to call the Strike off. Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French. "In years gone by the Kings of England exercised great personal power," Sir John told anxious Frenchmen. "One of our writers has aptly remarked that the King of England in his relations with his Ministers has kept three 'rights'-the right...
...fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...