Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room, a travelling crane was busily in action, its massive hook swinging in long even arcs as the operator, perched in a box-like contraption 40 feet above the floor, controlled the apparatus with a small hand switch...
Black Bill bobbed smartly, threw a left hook, a straight right, flew off the ropes like a whirligig. Midget Wolgast danced round him in circles from left to right, his left hook working like the plunger of a sewing machine, his long hair flying. Every three or four rounds of the 15 that kept the crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes...
Excerpt: ". . . Suddenly the lights snapped on ... and now the ether vibrated with the earth-girdling bellow of the greatest radio hook-up in history. The eulogistic phrases were familiar; so was the toneless voice of an Ex-President of the United States for whom the great inventor remembered voting. But he could hear now, since death had stripped him of his protective infirmity. Muttering sadly to himself, the old man pressed his fingers to his ears...
...working as though every sparring bout were a real fight. Now at the referee's signal he rushed out of his corner and met Scott, chasing him around the ring. For a round Scott boxed nicely. In the third round Sharkey, overanxious and savagely aggressive, swung a left hook which landed on Scott's hip, below the belt. The Englishman slid quickly to the floor, screwed up his face, claimed a foul. Referee Lou Magnolia ordered Sharkey to his corner, helped Scott up and examined him. Because Scott has claimed fouls in eight previous fights it was more...
...land that early morning countless citizens listened at their radios to the benevolent voice of George V, King and Emperor, as he opened the London Naval Parley (TIME, Jan. 27). No Columbia System listener knew then that a good part of the current carrying the imperial voice over that hook-up had passed through the body of Operator Vivian, who was too preoccupied with his tingling task to hear the speech...