Word: gamey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open season for trout ended, but not before the President had caught one more fat rainbow trout (4½ lbs.) and, by moonlight one evening, a grayling. Fifty grayling-slim, gamey cousins of the trout with a high dorsal fin, plentiful in Montana but almost extinct in Wisconsin-had been turned into the Brule from the Pierce estate's fish nurseries...
...audience then heard this gamey dialogue...
...said, "but will devote myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had a hook baited, paid out his line and before sunset had caught five fat dolphin, "one of which," remarked an alert news-gatherer, "looked remarkably like Candidate Willis." As a flashing, gamey kingfish was being drawn in on the Hoover line, up swirled a shark and tore the prize away. Some thought, though none would say it, that the shark resembled Candidate Dawes. After three days, Candidate Hoover abruptly stopped fishing, returned to Washington. Candidate Willis was grimly glad, having arranged...