Word: brooked
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...alarm clock clamored impatiently. The President leapt from his bed. It was 5 a. m. With his faithful guide Ormond Doty and Secret Service men, he drove 35 miles to Essex county, hiked through rugged woods to Ausable River. By 7 a. m., his boots were in the brook, his bait was on the hook. (In Franklin county, where White Pine Camp is, the game laws decree that trout fishing shall cease on Sept. 1, but in Essex county the deadline is Sept...
...Next day, Mr. Coolidge pulled on his hip-boots, waded deep in the waters of Osgood River with rustic guides, Oscar Otis and Ormon Doty. The party returned after two hours with a dozen brook trout...
...into an inward spiral motion by the spin of the earth. The spiral is always counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern. The "path" of a cyclone is determined by the larger air currents in which the spiral motion occurs, as an eddy is carried down a brook.) In England, townsfolk living north and west of London scrambled from their beds before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds of falling crockery and chimney pots. Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck...
Marines fired the Governor's salute, presented arms; Captain Wilson H. Brown Jr. presented the guests to the President and Mrs. Coolidge; the formalities ended. Four charming people chatted, dined on brook trout which the President himself had caught, strolled about the alpine rock garden, cruised on Lake Osgood. Later in the afternoon, other members of the Smith family and their guests were received by the Coolidges...
...much to the surprise of the President. At the press conference it was supposed that the President would lift the cloud concerning the species and dimensions of his fish. He did not. Five days later, the President caught singlehanded a six pound bass on a troll line, and five brook trout with trusty bamboo pole and juicy angle worms-rain, high wind, notwithstanding...