Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements...
...colt that came back," won the Kentucky Derby, most important race in America. The previous week Zev went to the post a heavy favorite in the Preakness and faltered badly, losing to Walter J. Salmon's Vigil. His reversal of form at the Derby vindicated his backers and, incidentally, paid those who still retained their faith in him $40.40 for a $2 ticket. Over 75,000 saw the race on the historic Churchill Downs. Zev's owner, H. F. Sinclair, collected $53,625 as the stake of victory...
Edward Dwight Salmon...
...Eliot 3S.L.A., chairman; P. A. Anderson 2G., R. M. Geer 3G., J. C. Slater 3G., H. H. Chen 1G., L. B. Morgan 1G.B., K. C. Gesner 2T.S., Roland Smith 1G., Delmar Leighton 1G., Roger Wells 4G., E. D. Salmon 1G., T. W. Noon 1G.Ed...
ALASKA: The Presidential fish reservation in Alaskan waters, against which Territorial Delegate Sutherland protested, will continue, according to Secretary Hoover. "Having fitted a lid on the further destruction of northwestern Alaskan salmon," said he, "I intend...