Word: creel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important question was, "Are you Clinton S. Carnes?" When the man said he was Clinton S. Carnes, the police were proud of their perspicacity. Here was important fish for their creel...
Columns have been written about Hoover's strategy, his war record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be side-tracked temporarily on minor issues, on the Prohibition question, rebellious farm bloc, or a yelping Senator Norris, but can this important qualification for the highest position this country can offer a man be neglected for long...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...
...story of "Old San Jacinto" and his friends-Old Hickory, Austin, Bowie (of the knife)-is inherently so dramatic that his present biographer's insistence upon long documentary quotations only retards the action. Equitable, Author Creel prints interesting letters and records defaming his hero, but precedes them with such convincing evidence of Sam Houston's bravery and devoted patriotism, that one recognizes in the abuse merely the jealousies that accumulate around any dynamic personality...
...Creel, Wood v. Witenagemot--Snyder, Weinstein