Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interrupted several Commissars who were either unable to believe their ears or did not catch the No. 1 Planner's point...
...Senators and 29 Representatives with their wives and children entrained for Washington. At Spokane Junketeer Garner, snugly installed in an upper berth, refused to come down for cameramen, bored deeper into his pillow. One canny photographer focused his camera, stood back, ventured : "I still maintain the only way to catch black bass is on a fly." Up popped a grinning Garner. "And I agree with you," said he. "Shoot...
...loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
Photographers watched every limousine hoping to catch Goelets, Vanderbilts, Astors. Sight was to see some of the box-holders making hesitant entrances, eager to be photographed, while others scooted quietly to their places. Mrs. Vanderbilt was there wearing her characteristic hair-ribbon...
...going away with him on occasional holidays but keeping a separate house, following her chosen career as he followed his. One fine day, when Bennett was off on a cruise, she knew she was going to have a baby. His reply to her news: "Very sorry. Very glad. Shall catch boat Hook of Holland, be with you tomorrow." When the baby (a girl) was born. Dorothy and the child moved into Bennett's house, were acknowledged as his family...