Word: kingfishers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President planned to eat and sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...
Otto Hermann Kahn, banker, caught a fish off West Palm Beach, Fla. A 40-lb. kingfish, his catch was a record. Robert Tyre Jones, golfer, caught a 7-ft. barracuda off Miami, Fla. That was no record...
...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 for Candidate Hoover...
Confident of his friends, careful of his health. Candidate Hoover prepared for the Ohio and other primaries by journeying southward to fish for amber jacks, baracuda, sailfish, groupers, kingfish and Florida delegates...
...Broiled Kingfish, Maitre d'Hotel...