Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves have played model parts. Not a single crime, major or minor, has marred the dignity of their protest. Many a spinner, wearying of charity, has reverted to the occupation of New Bedford's colonial days. Borrowing or building a boat, he has gone fishing, bringing in a catch he could market in the city. Gravely, the strikers' womenfolk gather in the streets to discuss the day's events in a babel of tongues. Never has the U. S. seen such a rebellion...
Naturally the serial had to have a catch-eye title-one that would help sell the paper-and Young Benito called it, with sonorous sacrilege: Claudia Particella, L'Amante del Cardinalel; Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo...
...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, having fished with the President, revealed: "The President caught more fish than I did, but my catch weighed more than his." When fishing, the President wears a red & black mackinaw, upon which is a golden fishing badge and the following insignia required...
...frightened passengers to his stateroom. His name is Morton McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...