Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I use the more dignified term-"experts." We resent the name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special order from a museum...
...water darkened from shore-sea green to mid-sea blue. Through it trailed 30 yards of Hoover line, baited with a strip of bonito flesh. Near it on another line flipped and danced an oreno teaser, a wood and aluminum decoy.* Silent minutes made a silent hour...
...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...
...officio member of the Brooks House Cabinet, has long been in fact independent of the latter group, having its own meeting house, support, and officers. The organization is steadily growing and has reached a point where it no longer needs Phillips Brooks House assistance, and it is in line with the present reorganization of that body to break off a purely nominal relationship...
...question of filling the open end of the stadium with a structure of beauty or one which may be a blot upon the landscape is invested with a public interest. The Harvard decision in favor of steel stands is distinctly disappointing, being quite out of line with the rest of Harvard's building program. Boston Traveler...