Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hurrying, beaming, the President called to Mrs. Coolidge: "Look what I caught." "You never caught that fish," replied the First Lady. "Yes, he did, Madam," assured Native Oscar Otis. That evening the catch was announced to a group of correspondents huddled about the fire at Paul Smith's Hotel, by Secretary Sanders, who, however, did not disclose whether the fish was pike or pickerel. Experts estimated, writers visualized; and the news of a Presidential catch, 14 inches long, approximating three pounds, was clicked over the telegraph. The fish had been caught on the hook of a trailer from Native...
Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon...
Southbound planes left Boston at five in the afternoon, reaching Teterboro Airport, N. J., at 7:30, in time to catch Chicago-bound night-flyers...
Amid virtually continuous cheering, Deputies representing all parties rose to thank Mr. Smith with similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound volume. It was dedicated and presented to Jeremiah Smith, Esq. After a sumptuous banquet in his honor he quitted Hungary last week...
Nine years ago, an anxious group of these same Bretons of St. Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread...