Word: skiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a number of sparse brown hackles hooked in his hat band, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, onetime (1916-21) Governor General of Canada, better known as the father-in-law of Adele Astaire, sat alone in a skiff on Blackwater River, Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line...
...went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana meat, and two human corpses...
...year before the Century's turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two years before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first...
...Jewel of Messrs. Skiff & Ross, however, has not glittered unblemished for the past 33 years. During the War it went into debt. Deficits loomed bigger & bigger and preferred dividends accumulated. Messrs. Skiff & Ross retired, and Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...
...companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when the rough sea made it look as if they might have to cut the line, and all a second night. By the second dawn all four men were blistered, spray-soaked...