Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours after dark the Myth II dropped her hook off Marblehead. "Howdy, Colonel!" exclaimed Governor Roosevelt next morning when mousey little Edward Mandell House went aboard for a cockpit chat. A fair breeze whiffed the Myth II around Cape Ann, carrying her snugly into Portsmouth harbor. "Wonderful! Perfectly grand! Simply splendid," bubbled Cruiser Roosevelt & crew at the end of their 300-mi. voyage...
Novelty of the meet was the entry of two two-place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...
...Taking off overweight for nearly every flight because she was invariably loaded down with extra equipment for all manner of experiments, notably: first launching of a glider from an airship; first hook-on of an airplane in flight; first radio reception of map facsimiles in flight; first test of an echo altimeter; first "narrowcasting" of voice on a light beam; tests of scores of navigation devices...
...Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook to get her out of that, takes her off with him to England...
...were in the midst of an emergency. Our house was on fire and we could not stop to dispute over the brand on the hook & ladder. Though the Fire Chief was known to be vacillating, uncertain, timid and afraid of the smoke and flames, we have tried to make the best of it and get along with him until we can secure a better one which we expect to do March...