Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rouse the broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface. Technique then is to drag your bait before the fish. As in bass fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike or when the fish is pointed toward you (it would fly out of his mouth). Once hooked the game, resourceful broadbill will roll (to shake the hook from...
Might Sirs: ... I drag it around under my arm all week long, reading it in the train, at the luncheon table, in the stores waiting for change! . . . No, I couldn't do without TIME. In fact -if, press stories are true-a certain Mr. Morrison of Texas, now in London, might have done well to have followed TIME!* MRS. R. B. HANFORD...
...then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant solves the not particularly pressing problem of who killed La Tour, by permitting Azrah to hold a spurious seance. All this will build up suspense for the beginning...
...House of Morgan large influence in the power field but by no means control. Partner Whitney: "It has not always been J. P. Morgan & Co.'s policies that have been adopted by a long shot. I don't mean that there was a knock-down and drag-out fight but we often defer to the operating heads in matters of policy...
...incoming Freshmen who have distinguished themselves on preparatory school platforms. But the polar atmosphere of Harvard's Speaking and Debating Departments all too quickly chills this enthusiasm. The Sophomore year finds the fifty reduced to a paltry five or six, who with small heart and slight interest drag out a desultory three years of "Harvard College Debating...