Word: izaak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...
...MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them...
Preacher Bradley, 48, drinks lemon juice before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans...
Disciples of Izaak Walton report that fishing in the muddy River Charles is no better this spring than it has been in years past, especially that sector which flows by the University. But the rod, worm, and fly boys are not utterly downcast, for Widener is close enough for all students. And Widener, strangely enough, has become a fisher's heaven, at least until a month from today...
...Chicago last fortnight Conservation Director Samuel Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results...