Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover rod. As Pundit Sullivan landed...
...Maryland's company took up deck golf, shuffleboard, trapshooting. Except for the President-elect's customary tall stiff collar, every one changed entirely to tropical clothes. Will Irwin, writing for the New York World, reported: "The atmosphere is courteous and pleasant, without formality, and everything is 'as easy as an old shoe.' " The Maryland's radio operators were busied, sending tens of thousands of idyllic press reports and receiving Associated Press flashes for publication in The Evening Hurricane, ship's daily...
Other acts manage to remain on a par with the Olsen outfit and in fact convey the impression that the Keith management has gone to New York and not Oskaloosa for its talent. As a departure from accepted Hub tradition, this deserves notice...
James Luther Reid '29 of Somerville for Marshal; Norman Winer '29 of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Orator; Peter John White Bove '29, of Schenectady, New York, for Ivy Orator...