Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write, an unusual executive sense, and a gift for fortune-luck if you like. This luck of Mrs. Rinehart's is not a myth. Shooting, she will bring down a bird on the wing-to her own surprise; fishing, she will be the only one to make a catch...
...grasping the fundamentals. Not only does it believe that Rome was built in a day, but the Soviet thinks that the millions of Russia, unleavened by any considerable number of really enlightened people, can at once produce and operate vast flocks of airplanes, dynamos, anything, in fact that might catch the fancy of her rulers. Until Lenine and his "comrades" realize that the way to progress is slow and laborious, they will have difficulty in persuading the rest of the world that they are fit leaders for Russia...
...bustle and clatter of energy lavishly expended sets up a sympathetic vibration in every true American heart. Solicitous brains have spun for the busy man to give him a telephone and radio, a motor car and airplane, ready-to-wear clothes, and a meal reduced to seconds in a catch-as-catch-can restaurant...
...paper, my eye stuck on the statement: "The Duke swished the agate into the draperies for the winning count." Is there any need to go on with your campaign for the emancipation of the language, as long as the reporters carry on the fight so gallantly under the existing catch-as-catch-can rules? COL. BYGAD...
Eddie Guest in his office is a delight. Short, stocky, vital, with none of the manners of the British Isles, and plenty of the breeziness of the Middle West, he shows you his books with pride and talks of his work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself...