Word: compleat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...
...Gilpatric, author of The Compleat Goggler and inventor of the sport, was a professional aviator who climbed to a passenger altitude record after three months as a licensed pilot, an advertiser who climbed to a vice-presidency after 13 years with Manhattan's Federal Advertising Agency. Then he escaped to the French Riviera to write popular stories about a Scottish engineer. His spare time he passed in fencing and pistol shooting until he found scaly targets more interesting...
...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...
...SPOKE LAST?-John V. Turner- Holt ($2). Compleat Angler Petrie fishes from each of six suspects his reason for murder...
Class of 1932 Moses AbramovitzWalton: Compleat Angler John Barton Appelbaum Helboin: Dance of Death Garrett Birkhoff Translation by Coleridge of the 1st part of Schiller's Wallenstein Harold Leslie Biabee Vitno Caesarum Jacob Canter Petrarea Rime Frank Gilchrist Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield Henry Adams Morss James: Charles W. Eliot David Henry Popper James: Charles W. Eliot James Wallerstein Gaskell: Cranford Henry Babcock Veatch Bridges: Testament of Beauty James Wallerstein Gilbert: The Savey Operas William Barry Wood Masefield's Poems Paul Maurice Zoll Sterne: Tristram Shandy Class of 1933 Molvin Leon Anshon Rowley's Poems Morton Clark Bradley Soldlitz: History...