Word: fishinger
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He knew sportsmen like a book. His first publication was a book of sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was...
>Charles Phair, heir to a Maine starch fortune, wrote Derrydale's most expensive book, Atlantic Salmon Fishing (hand-illustrated, $250). His only literary work, it was mostly rewritten by Publisher Connett. To sportsmen, Charles Phair is a potent name. At 63, he has killed over 5,000 salmon.
Prosperous Publisher Connett wants to publish a full sporting history of the U. S. but his most serious problem is getting his sharpshooting authors to write at all. So urgent is Publisher Connett's search for new authors that he has cut down his own hunting and fishing to...
Specifically exempt from the provisions of the Act are those engaged in such occupations as agriculture, fishing, local service and retail trades. The law applies to most others if they are engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce. Of 11,000,000 workers and...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat...