Word: angler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a shy, retiring sport, deep-sea angling has become one of the most glamorous, gregarious sports in the U. S. Once content to catch a big fish and talk about it forevermore, today a deep-sea angler wants to keep on catching a bigger fish than his neighbor, yearns to break a record -or at least see his picture in the papers alongside the monster he has conquered...
John William Bricker, 45, oldtime University of Ohio debater and baseball catcher, expert angler, twice Ohio's Attorney General...
When he tried to help an angler pull in a 400-lb. tuna while boating off Elsinore, Prince Axel of Denmark, who once rescued a Swedish cinemactress from drowning, was dragged into the water. Into his boat the angler safely pulled both fish and Prince...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison, tough Gangster Alvin Karpis, onetime Public Enemy No. 1,-* asked for and was given two books: Salt Water Fishing, An American Angler in Australia...
...Angler Stanley's tackle was adequate (14-0 reel, 36-thread line) but the Mongoose's cockpit afforded him no proper foot rest to fight so big a fish. His friend, William Hale Harkness, had to spell him on the rod. Evening was at hand before they had their monster subdued-and then it sounded (dived deep). They began the laborious job of "pumping" the dying fish to the top, when violent thrashing on their line and clouds of blood deep in the water told them that something else was after their fish-sharks! By the time they...