Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they did-i. e., print the absurd drivel sent them. However, reputable agents are currently trying to arouse action by the Federal Trade Commission which has broader powers. Author & Journalist pointed out the adroit wording of the publishers' provocative letters to Lottie, also called attention to the major catch in the publishers' schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing Twin were to be issued. In the cases which Author & Journalist has investigated, 100 copies were usually bound, enough for the author and his or her friends. Average profit to the unscrupulous...
Alfredo Codona, aerialist supreme in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus, slipped into a bathrobe, hoped he would find his brother's hands waiting to catch him when he spun dizzily out of his triple somersault from the sweeping end of a flying trapeze 60 ft. above the centre ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He usually manages to find them, misses every two or three months. The Codona Brothers* have been holding hands for over 20 years, have been grabbing at each other after Alfredo's triple somersault several times a week since...
...expected that J. H. Brock will open the game on the mound, while R. H. Waldinger will be at catch. H. P. White, the promising six-foot-two twirler from Country Day, and G. A. Bramwell, last year's star pitcher at St. Mark's, will be held in reserve. The much-disputed first-base position will be held down by H. J. Adziglan, while M. S. Hovenanian will operate at short stop, the position he seems to have finally captured. B. R. Baldwin, who has been tried at nearly every position on the diamond, will see service at right...
...Clark's place at Westbury-where the Meadow Brook Steeplechase is run every September- automobiles are seldom seen. They are generally forbidden because Ambrose Clark, though he likes to drive fast in a car and owns a Rolls-Royce with a bed in it so that he can catch naps on his way to the Saratoga races, much pre- fers to tool his coach & four. This is the vehicle in which, wearing a beige derby to match his wife's beige dresses and equipped with lavish hampers of refreshments, Mr. Clark takes himself magnificently to the polo matches...
...bank, with no responsibility beyond signing an occasional paper. His young wife and he loved each other, lived comfortably; but was he content? He was not. His wife called him Gengé and thought him a dear silly fellow. Townsfolk called him "the usurer." When he tried to catch a glimpse of himself as he really was, he found- nothing. The more he brooded over his undiscoverable identity the more despairing he became. Finally, in ah attempt to shock people's idea of him into something resembling his own, he played what seemed like such a strange practical joke...