Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...
When Simplifier Littlewood sent a rough draft of his work to Shaw the response was "By hook or crook get it published without waiting to make it any better. Then advienne que pourra...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...
Pittsburgh (Universal) is a pretentious attempt to picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...mother that was no way either to live or die. Every night she "brushed her hair for 15 minutes [and] went through all her ordinary ablutions," making, apologetically, one concession: in order not to delay the others if the time should come for haste, she put on her 80-hook corset over her nightgown. Rulka undressed the children "mostly for psychological reasons...