Word: minnows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark...
Goodwin then stated that he had considered the ridiculing of the sacred Bay State "minnow" as a joke. "But it is no joke to mutilate a number plate: that man who has evidently hammered the fish out of his plate must pay $1--that may be expensive for a minnow but it's not too much for a codfish," he chuckled...
Marie of Roumania and Ji amie Walker in a new high hat with peaks on his lapels like unto those of Darien, Marie of Roumania and the President of the United States with a smile like unto that featured the day he caught a minnow in the Adirondacks, Marie of Roumania and Fifth Avenue, Marie of Roumania and Gopher Prairie, Marie of Roumania and the Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...
When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...