Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed father did at almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout fishing expeditions, wrote his biography when he died (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Tertius...
Chapter by chapter and sentence by sentence Author Coyle tried his composition out on a Maine fisherman and the fisherman's wife. Result: Uncommon Sense. Further result: 50,000 copies have been ordered by the Democratic National Committee. Theme of Uncommon Sense: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain." With lucid plausibility David Cushman Coyle expounds technological unemployment, the arrival of an economy of plenty, the advantages of economic nationalism, the congenital wickedness of high finance. The blame for Depression he places on men who invest part of their income instead of spending it. His solution...
...which some of the villagers understand.* At Sibenik the King and Mrs. Simpson picked out three dolls, total cost of which was only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt, put it on and at night went fishing with a lantern for zubach, a species of carp. Around him hovered more than 100 small craft, some of whose occupants were Yugoslavian detectives trying to look like fishermen. Under these trying circumstances, His Majesty did wonders...
...home, keeps scrapbooks which are extensive because San Francisco sportswriters play up Di Maggio for the city's 60,000 Italians. There are three other sisters and four brothers of whom the oldest, Tom, like greying Joseph Di Maggio Sr., who retired three years ago, is a crab fisherman. For a time it looked very much as if young Joe might follow the family profession also. This was last year when Tom Di Maggio, acting as his manager, in a financial dispute with the management of the Seals, threatened to take Joe out of baseball...
...cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses were afterwards discovered on a nearby island; they had apparently died of starvation and thirst. With the disturbers of their peace gone. Dore and Dr. Ritter heaved a sigh of relief. But the tale was not yet complete. One night, in spite of their vegetarian predilections, they...