Word: marline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sought to attribute Author Ernest Hemingway's fondness for bloodshed to a neurosis resulting from the war, loud were the protests from Author Hemingway's loyal admirers. A more convincing if less spontaneous rebuttal to the Eastman attack was last week offered by a 468-lb. black marlin...
...purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size...
...Guardia, also a wartime aviator, who had dashed directly to the gallery, helped capture the young man from behind. Representatives sneaked sheepishly back to the floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made no mention of the interruption. The youth told police he was Marlin Kemmerer, 25, of Allentown, Pa. where he works in the sporting goods department of a Sears, Roebuck store. His friends described him as an expert marksman. Before hospitalizing him for mental observation, police found two sticks of dynamite in his rooming house, a ten-page speech in his pocket. Said...
...with his wife, Louise Clarkson Connally, in an old-fashioned apartment house on Connecticut Avenue. He sidesteps Washington society, chums principally with Texans and Democrats from the West. He plays no golf, but shoots duck, hunts deer, fishes. He drives a 1930 Dodge sedan which takes him back to Marlin, Tex. between Senate sessions...
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...