Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins...
...experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped rod...
True to the conductor's premonition, Magowan's mad driving was too much for the old engine: a side rod let go, flailed the engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were...
...mere book of memoirs basking in the glory of the great. It does, to be sure, tell much about the glamorous literary London of the nineties. It gives personal reminiscences of such diverse figures as Aubrey Beardsley and H. G. Wells. It includes many amusing anecdotes about the "Headly Rod" and the "Yaller Bok", about Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and about Israel Zangwill. But all this is incidental, as it pertains to the life of Grant Richards up to his twenty-third year. And this, his early life, he recounts with modesty, with delight and understanding...
...State warden of their own sex. She is Edith A. Stoeher, 27, a husky, genial sportswoman who breeds English setters on her farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects her to turn out many a woman angler able to whip Connecticut's 32 State-leased trout streams with the best...