Word: aquarium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From smoky, factory-ridden Steubenville, Ohio, 28 brightly scrubbed boys arrived in Manhattan last week, saw Rockefeller Center, the Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...
Regardless of man-eating sharks which infest their waters, robust Australians cockily make sea-swimming their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
...Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby shark was in turn gulped down by an oversize tiger shark. By final coincidence the tiger shark happened to be caught and so roughly handled on its way to the aquarium that its stomach turned before it had quite digested the baby shark, thus spewing up Smith's tattooed arm in prime condition...
...Manhattan's Aquarium, a little blackfoot penguin sprained its ankle when it stepped on a marshmallow someone had dropped onto the penguins' pool platform...
Last week the McHenry quartet was touring New York City. They appeared at the Bronx Zoo, the Aquarium, Palisades Amusement Park, Woolworth Tower, the Normandie, N. Y. Police Department Headquarters, McAlpin Hotel and Hearn's Department Store where small, smiling Alyce was billed as "the upside-down tummy girl...