Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kalgoorlie, Australia, she read Kipling's Just-So Stories?"Old Man Kangaroo" and "Yellow Dog Dingo"?to her two sons. For years Kipling was their favorite and many a long trip was eased by repetitions of the doings of the 'Stute Fish, the Elephant's Child, and Mr. One-Two-Three- Where's-My-Breakfast...
...President Hoover takes joy in slipping away from his newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Salmon, Dunn, g. g., Bott Robinson, pt. pt., Stickler Kroell, c.pt. c.pt., Leach Pickard, 1d. 1d., Johnston Hartnett, 2d. 2d., Cornelson Park, 3d. 3d., Phinney, Crehan Nido, c. c., Carnell, King, Golan Glenn, 3a. 3a., McVean, Fish Gulick, Pope, 2a. 2a., Sieminski McGuire, Wilkinson, 1a., 1a., Gould Johnson, Sanders, o.h. o.h., Gunther, Moore Shapiro, Foshay, 1h. 1h., Babcock...
...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
...deadly products of the White Man-fire-arms and fire-water-had dispossessed the Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place...