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The trout season neared its close in Wisconsin. President Coolidge learned that trout feed by night as hungrily as in the daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train...
On a rainy day at Brule, the President shot a shotgun at sailing clay pigeons and had the satisfaction of seeing 24 out of 25 break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped...
¶ "I don't drink, I don't overeat, I don't waste my energy running around in circles-I go fishing."
As night fell, the Nominee appeared before the multitude. "This," he said, with some emotion, "is a home-coming." He talked about his and their pioneer ancestors; about his first schoolteacher, Mrs. Molly Brown Carran, who was present, gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled...
¶ Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago is a supreme example of the importance of not being earnest, of "giving a good show." (In this connection, Mr. Kent makes the astonishing statement that President Coolidge has "a profound distaste" for fishing.)