Word: trout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mr. Butler had gone, the Summer White House issued an announcement: President Coolidge had caught six fish, including a Loch Laven trout weighing 1¾ Ibs. and a Rainbow trout weighing...
...least, Americans would be treated to a presidential campaign based on fundamental issues Daily, the Republican press would chronicle the piscatorial teats of Messrs. Hoover and Curtis, while the Democratic newspapers would retaliate with even more meticulous accounts of the day's catch of their protegees Pike for pickeral, trout for salmon, the battle would be fought bitterly every inch...
Just when he was supposed to be looking intently in another direction, President Coolidge turned around last week and said he would spend the summer in the northwest corner of Wisconsin, in a log cabin, in a cedar forest, on an island in a trout stream...
...Edward W. Starling, official summer White House inspector, had returned to Washington at last with a description that sounded like the land at the end of a rainbow: high altitude, cool nights, few flies, commodious quarters, beautiful trees, abundant game, and trout-500,000 of them, stocked, bred, liver-fed for 30 years -brook trout, lake trout, steelhead trout -yes, even rainbow trout. President Coolidge announced his decision abruptly; said he would hold the Budget meeting early, on June 11 and leave immediately afterwards for Brule, Wis., for Cedar Island Lodge and cool woods, seclusion, trout. Summer White House Inspector...
...property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard...