Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME-imitating ad writers use a hook baited with a fly, a pretty, colorful fly. You think it is TIME news so you go after it as a trout goes for a fly, then zowie! you feel something hooking itself into your throat...
Tossing the Fox film overboard in a sealed can, Captain George Fried of the George Washington, famed for his sea rescues, trailed it behind his ship. Circling around the ship Pilot Marion Grevenberg let down a grappling hook, grappled again & again until his rope broke...
...store sales were running 13% above last year, department store sales in some cities were up as much as 35%. September mail order sales were up 42%. It took no statistical microscope to perceive that the long downward sweep of the business curve had, at last, a little upward hook...
...course some of the perennial insiders want to hook up the Roosevelt administration with the demise of the Crimson nine. Wild rumors now in the air say that President Roosevelt became suddenly solicitous of his international relations and sent a hurry-up radiogram to Coach Chauncey et cle. telling him to take it a bit easy. After winning five straight games in Hawaii, one can see that things looked pretty gloomy for peaceful relations with Japan...
Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...