Word: fishhooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tangling fishhook, whose barbs are imbedded in a rubber lure and spring out only when a fish strikes...
...more equable than any place in the world. Its greatest advantage over Nassau as a U. S. resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable is the Crown Colony of Bermuda. It is not one island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
...only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...
...Chicago, Leslie Merion attached a fishhook to a stick, reached through a window, hooked a thousand dollar bond off a clerk's desk, was arrested...