Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were those who saw in the life of the present day no opportunity for that whimsical and infrequent thing romance to creep into the world. Then Conrad wrote. And someone off Sandy Hook could once more see in the lines of a sailing vessel what earlier romanticists had seen off Trafalgar...
...Cabinet: 1) Seward, played by a self-important young man of 25, although supposed to be 60; 2) Stanton, equipped with a beard at least two feet long and portrayed with a stock "old man's shuffle" suitable to street mendicants; 3) "Hook" (Drinkwater's fictitious cabinet member), played as the chief character; browbeating the diletant President, transfixing him with the reproving stare of a Victorian "stage father...
...excited gendarme wrenched a Parisian telephone instrument off its hook. "Fleurns, vingt-huit, trente!" he cried?the number of the private residence of Marshal Foch. Soon the gendarme commenced to sputter with vigor and at length...
...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...
...just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part of Mrs. Smith pretty much of a riot, all on his own hook...