Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...
...straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...
...minimum legal length for all lobsters entering the U. S. That Maine needs such a law is suggested by the fact that the price of lobsters dropped from 60? per Ib. three years ago to 25? last winter. It costs a Maine lobsterman 20? per Ib. to catch a lobster. Canada's industry is government-subsidized, and its lobsters enter the U. S. duty free. Though Canadian lobsters grow as large as Maine's, immature ones are caught under a law which provides for two months of intensive fishing, then a ten-month closed season...
...speed. From three lengths behind tired Economic at the head of the turn, he was four lengths ahead after the horses came into the stretch. Jockey James, who usually lies back to wait for clear running at the start of a race, has the reputation of being impossible to catch when his horse is leading in the stretch. Jockey Horn on Economic and Jockey Ensor, coming up fast with Stepenfetchit, found him impossible to catch last week. Burgoo King was first by five lengths at the finish, with Economic second, Stepenfetchit third, Tick On sixth...
...last she gets almost bogged down in love herself. At the wealthy Stawell's her prettiness and simplicity catch Colin's eye. But for a snooping butler Colin would have made her his. Sally, very much in love, is promptly dismissed. Colin just as promptly forgets. But in her next position Sally, after a mourning while, forgets too; because in John Saril's household she finally graduates from maid to mistress. Middleaged, morose John Saril gives Sally real love, intends to marry her, make her his heir. But Death suddenly intervenes, and Sally must wander on again...