Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isles an expedition to take motion pictures. Said I: 'There are many millions of persons interested in fish. .... I have strong reasons to believe that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land, will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees. And I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable...
...have strong reasons to believe" says the former Mayor, "that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees, and I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable." Accordingly, he has organized the South Sea Research Company...
...first game, the Freshman got the jump on the upper classman and was leading 14-11 when the latter began to catch up. The game was set at three and Dixon took the points in succession. In the concluding games, the two players were about even through the seventh score, then Dixon forged ahead, taking point after point and allowing Rawlins but a scattered...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...
...this Masefield writes for us, in the austere numbers of "Samson Agonistes;" he is probably the only latter-day poet that can catch their authentic note. And the songs incorporated in the play show that he has not forgotten how to write lyrics as they should be written. It is a good play, almost a great play. And yet (shamefacedly I confess it) I prefer his earlier, and therefore presumably less mature work. For there is no one can write as he can of the sea, and of them that go down, to the sea in ships...