Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychologist, Safety Director Edwin D. Barry of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., last week armed his police with sawed-off repeating shotguns, ordered them to hunt day and night in twelve hour shifts "until you get the Hook-Nosed Gunman dead or alive!" No slasher, the Hook-Nosed Gunman had shot three Cleveland women up to last week, had forced two more to yield to his amorous advances at pistol point, had caused Safety Director Barry to exclaim, "A woman isn't safe on the streets of Cleveland...
...Regan coached, bullied, kidded into a middleweight boxer of championship calibre. Soon after Coke left the factory, his wife, a small-time gold digger with big-time aspirations, left him flat. Coke brooded over her defection, but Regan thought it was a good thing. Coke's wicked left hook, his ability to take punishment, began to win him a more than local reputation. No ring-general, Coke took his orders for each fight from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty Negro boxer, he hoped it would give him a chance to meet Champion Mike Shay. When...