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...Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Lawyer Robert Alfonso Taft of Cincinnati) accompanied President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Commission No. 13 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Royal coachman, black gnat, grizzly king, professor! If Calvin Coolidge never again has sport he will at least remember the summer of 1928 as the time when he learned his fly-book by heart, casting on the brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Summer Sports | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made a fool of herself, and that is all there is to it. All the camels that she has put down without a grimace have made her struggles and final revulsion from even as considerable a gnat as Governor Butler absolutely ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEGREE. | 6/6/1883 | See Source »

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