Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapidan camp for two days. He pulled on hip boots at once, went fishing by himself, caught twelve trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...murder, he sees a chance to make himself comparatively rich and famous by: 1) planting incriminating evidence against himself 2) getting arrested for the crime, 3) writing his own account of the trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems likely to be chairman at an electrocution His fiancée (Dorothy Jordan), whose father...
...Paris only a perfunctory call on Premier André Tardieu was scheduled, but during this chat M. Tardieu, who had only that morning returned from Geneva, suddenly decided to catch the train Mr. MacDonald was taking for Geneva. Tremendously excited were Paris newshawks, who had just been officially informed that their Premier was not returning to Geneva when he popped out among them to say: "I can tell you nothing now messieurs, but-I am going back to Geneva...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...
...first game of the year, held the opposing batters to six hits, all of which were for one base. He received able support from his teammates. Two errors were chalked up against Harvard, both made by Gleason who was caught napping when Sprague threw to him in attempts to catch runners...