Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents the real Alice Joy. a simple, ruddy-cheeked, home-loving girl who adores flowers and ivy-covered...
...Brattle Square structure was condemned by building inspectors and Harvard Square business men objected to the permanent removal of the apparatus to a distant station. Mayor Russell did not know yesterday how many pieces of apparatus would be accomodated but the original plans were for a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pumping engine...
...prison yard suddenly seething with a bloody, vicious riot. A dozen convicts had captured Deputy Warden Giles. Three hundred others were milling in the yard armed with clubs and rocks. Some had guns. Louis Deathridge, a Missouri desperado, ran to the wall with a rope which had a hook on the end. He hurled the hook over the wall, started to climb. A blast of gunfire from the guards above sent Desperado Deathridge spinning. The prisoners in the yard roared with rage, retrieved his body...
...middle-class Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress...
...occurred to Robert Miller, onetime engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., that such music might be saleable. With other engineers as associates and himself as president, he formed Wired Music in Manhattan, announced that he would sell music to hotels, clubs, private homes. Wires, leased by the mile, would hook up New York, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo and many another city. Subscribers would pay between $25 and $100 a month, receive programs from noon until three a. m.- luncheon music, dinner music, dance music. There would be no static and, because Wired Music planned to hire its own artists, no interpolated...