Word: marline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hulking Ernest Hemingway was in Key West dividing his attention between literature and marlin when a two-word cable arrived from Madrid. Inscrutable to a Spanish censor, it read LUIS HOOSEGOWED...
...their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako is the only shark which will take fast-moving bait, and at leaping, it is unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water, but not so high. And like those of tuna and marlin which thresh on the surface, their bodies, gills, fins and tails quiver...
...unsuccessful attempt to hold up Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, a lone robber mortally shot President Henry Marlin Saylor...
...them printed in color. Even more inviting than the handsome format of Esquire was its table of contents, in which each item had been selected not for artistic or literary merit but on the criterion of "an especial appeal for men." The first issue contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne had a piece about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate...
...Once hooked the game, resourceful broadbill will roll (to shake the hook from his soft mouth, if caught there), sound (dive straight for the bottom), double under the boat to cut the line, make a run to try to carry away your tackle. Famed for his prodigious jumps, the marlin has been known to "walk on his tail" 50 yd. When you have landed such a fish, you have something...