Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...
...skyscraper of a man, who plays the part of the first lord in "Iolanthe" makes the most of the role of the pirates' apprentice. William Williams, The Lord High Chancellor, is not quite so satisfactory in the part of that General who has fathered so many eligible daughters to catch the pirate eye. His voice is always recitative, and as a consequence not half so sufficient in the second play...
...Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
Near Oneco, Conn., one L. H. Brown, told the game warden he had seen a trout leap out of the Moosup River, catch a low-flying sparrow, gulp it down...
...catch up on my sleep...