Word: angler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 22, of the tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show...
This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...
...expeditions to Andros Island by Colonel Wise, whose literary style is as unpretentious as his experting, were made perfect by E. M. Schuetz, resident manager in Nassau for National Fisheries Corp., a commercial sharking company, to whom prospective sharkers might well apply. Gleeful was his reply to an angler returning home on the S. S. Munargo with boasts about the big barracuda he had caught. Colonel Wise could truthfully say: "We used them for bait." His biggest catch at Andros was a Great Blue shark that measured 11 ft. 7 in., weighed 954 lb. But far bigger ones, of course...
Preacher Bradley, 48, drinks lemon juice before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans...
...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...