Word: reels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students will be held in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. William J. Bingham, '16, Director of Athletics A. E. French, '29, Freshman Football Coach, and J.E. Barrett, '20, Captain of the Football Team, will speak on Athletics and Physical Education at Harvard. The moving picture reel of Athletics at Harvard will also be shown...
...family in a rented furnished house in a quiet section. His young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most...
...White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the President by hi? example has brought to the attention of the whole country...
...white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also the British Empire. The last reel fades out as he is about to hand the fourth feather back to Fay Wray. Best shot: a monkey carrying a piece of string over the wall of the black hole of Ondurman...
...published by Longmans, Green in ordinary and de luxe binding. He is about to publish another. "Smiling Bill" Vogt is one of those rare men who have almost precise coordination of sight, thought and movement. He has a powerful wrist and a leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags or level winding devices. He can hold a fish even if its fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming...