Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried to catch him as he fell. A dozen Representatives leaped forward into the well, picked up his lifeless body, carried it to the lobby. House Physician Dr. George Calver worked vainly over it. Mrs. Eslick hurried down from the gallery where she had been listening to her husband's speech. Members...
...Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before, George V succeeded in bucking up Scot MacDonald who had entered the Palace glum, emerged beaming to catch the train for Paris with Sir John Simon, his Foreign Minister. The Press asked: "Are you leaving with great hopes?" The Prime Minister nodded vigorously but the Foreign Minister said, "I am leaving with great determination...
...visiting socialite named Gaerste. When she follows Gaerste to Manhattan, Bill follows also to tell Gaerste about the chauffeur. Lil chases her husband home, shoots him, leaves him being nursed by the first Mrs. Legendre. When Legendre, remarried to his first wife, is traveling with her in Europe, they catch one more glimpse of Lil. Gay and more pleased with herself than she should be, she has an Hispano-Suiza, a racehorse, a Marquis, in addition to her chauffeur, Albert...
Most anglers consider the trout a clever creature, cool, resourceful and important. Anglers are mistaken. Trout are nervous rather than intelligent. Only terror, causing them to dart and lurk, makes them fun to catch. Puzzled, dejected, perpetually alarmed by trifles, U. S. trout were unaware last week of a new book which materially increases the dangers of their station...
Just Fishing is a compendium of ways & means of catching trout, bass, pike and lesser U. S. fish, annotated with incidents from Author Ray Bergman's copious fishing notebooks. Unlike most expert anglers. Author Bergman considers worm-fishing for trout permissible, particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that...