Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after her husband fails her on their bridal night. One day Eva rides off, undresses, attaches her clothes to her horse's saddle, goes in for a swim. While she is in the water her horse gallops off with her clothes. The lover appears to help her catch her runaway beast. Naked as Eve, Eva thanks the young man for her horse and clothes, is about to depart when she trips and suffers a slight accident which causes both to spend the night in a cabin. In the cabin scenes Czechoslovak Director de Machaty confines himself almost exclusively...
Nevertheless, when the trumpets brayed and the white-ruffled Alguaciles rode out to catch the keys to the arena in their plumed hats last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never...
...time this was accomplished it was early morning of the fourth day and the fight that had ended was the longest (by 42 hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...possibility of a European war still seemed reasonably acute last week. In Bermuda, Dr. William Beebe made a record descent into the ocean. Back from Honolulu. President Roosevelt had barely time to catch his breath before he was immersed in currency problems of grave consequence to all U. S. citizens. Such matters as these received attention from the U. S. Press last week but less attention than something which happened in a small room on the first floor of Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...