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...never found out, though they at once bought 40 acres and a log house high up near the cold shoulders of the Olympic Mountains in the "most rugged, most westerly, greatest, deepest, largest, wildest, gamiest, richest, most fertile, loneliest, most desolate" countryside she had ever seen. The house had no running water, little roof, and the vines were crawling across the floors. But the first body-numbing summer had to be spent building cozy quarters for the chickens before work could be done on the house. The soil produced lavishly. The stock was prolific. So was the local population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scrawk! | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...write-football stories ("from the woman's point of view") for the Oakland, Calif. Tribune. Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ods-Fish, Madame! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...There is good trolling for sharks, king fish, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, grouper, amberjack right off the mouth of Nassau Harbor. Only 20 mi. away is Andros Island which boasts the world's best bonefishing. Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest. It feeds in extremely shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead of teeth, with which it hungrily crushes hardshell crabs.* Potent and numerous are Nassau's habitues. They include: Publisher Nelson Doubleday, Publisher Conde Nast and his editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Minutes; 45 Pounds | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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