Word: gaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene in Bronx. Robert Cantwell makes a few pointed, sensible remarks...
...list. Only one-third as many Juniors are in the unsatisfactory category as Freshmen, while fifty per cent more are on the Dean's list. Freshmen and their seniors should however, take this as a warning, rather than believing that studies become easier the longer one stands the gaff. The cause for the concern which ought to trouble their scholarly breasts is the lamentable fact that the apparent improvement can be accounted for by the number of men whose "connections with the University have been permanently severed"--in past years something like one-third of those who enter...
...runs were shorter. By midnight, the boat, which had been towed approximately 200 miles in two and a half days, was 60 mi. off Liverpool and Angler Howell realized that it was practically standing still. He reeled in his tuna slowly until it was close enough to gaff. Then began a battle to rope the tuna's tail...
...David Burnham-Vi-king ($2.50). If Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa...
...hours later Mrs. Grinnell was still fighting her fish, her hook fouled firmly in its skull. The captain of her boat, Wally Baker, made her turn over the rod to him. fearing the prolonged struggle would seriously injure her. At 5 a. m. next day he finally managed to gaff the brute. "At one time the fish had 1,600 ft. of line out. and fighting on the end of that, put up a terrific battle," said 200-lb. Mrs. Grinnell. "But I think that fish realized it had someone on the other end of the line...