Word: minnow
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...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...
...Minnow, little Minnow, don't cry!" murmured Alexander Reither, whose "cream-colored piqué vest . . . revealed . . . the odd attractiveness that. . . made him a notorious breaker of hearts." "Loneliness," he assured Minnow, "is something you need not be afraid of! Not with your figure!" Minnow pocketed faithless Lover Reither's generous parting check, and burst into tears. "Oh, Alexander. . . .Oh, my darling, my Only. . . . Life is like a railway platform.... Au revoir, my dear...
Worldly, amorous, 56-year-old Publisher Reither is the principal character in Czech-born F. C. Weiskopf's novel about Prague on the eve of World War I. When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with...
...fall, the angler's luck improves as the surviving little fish grow larger and harder for the big fish to catch. By winter, the fishing should be even better. But with cold weather, a fishes digestion slows down; it takes 350 hours to digest the same minnow it would digest in several summer hours...
...disregard for weather a steelheader needs a pitcher's eye. He must cast 100 ft. and more, often laying his goof within a foot of snags. His fingers must be sensitive and quick. A steelhead does not strike: he nudges the line as gently as a minnow. The expert recognizes the split second to jerk his rod and sink the hook. Then the whole river seems to explode...