Word: angler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apple-Cheeked Gwilym. Since all is fair in love and politics, Conservatives baited their hook to catch workpeople's votes by popping into one of the Party's showiest offices an apple-cheeked ex-coal-miner, one Gwilym Rowlands, an oldster as pink and enticing as an angler's worm...
Many is the angler who, having lashed a lake vainly with fly or plug, or plumbed it for empty hours with hook and sinker, has wished that the waters might suddenly be rent or snatched away by some miracle, exposing the bottom and, on it, all the flopping creatures whose presence has not been betrayed by appetite...
...ANGLING is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so," said Izaak Walton; and Bliss Perry's three essays on fishing seem abundant proof of this statement. Only a born angler could write with such gusto, or make the subject seem so alive to the reader. Three essays--"Fishing with a Worm," "Fishing with a Fly," and "Revisiting a River"--make up this book; all appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
...these essays, "Fishing with a Worm," long an angler's classic, remains the best. Perhaps it is inevitable that a defense of the under-dog, or of the worm, should have the greatest appeal, for as he says...
...three directors who will retire in June are Professor R. P. Angler '97, of New Haven; G. F. Baker, Jr. '99, of New York City; and Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. '60, of St. Louis, Miss...