Word: minnow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REFLECTING UPON YOUR COVERAGE OF THE FAUBUS AFFAIR [SEPT. 23], I HEAR ONLY THE MOCKING LAUGH OF HISTORY - AT THOSE OF MY FELLOW SOUTHERNERS WHO WOULD HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF SOCIAL GROWTH WITH THE MINNOW SEINE OF TRUTHLESS REASON...
Both books were written in dialogue, and the two main characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...
...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...
...Author Taylor has written a good, if not a major, novel. One flaw: the stepmother's crackup is too feebly foreshadowed; when it comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children of the year's fiction...