Word: bonitos
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ROME--Premier Bonito Mussolini's newspaper today predicted that an impending spring offensive against Britain will bring "a final Axis victory" while the Fascist High Command reported intensified German air attacks in Libya and the Mediterranean...
...Potomac, warned of possible hurricanes at sea, had been dodging from cay to cay rather than risk crossing the open channel between Florida and the Bahamas. Gaily Franklin Roosevelt told waiting newshawks how only an hour before while the Potomac was steaming at ten knots, he had caught a bonito, trolling over the stern rail...
Buccaneers like Bonito and Captain Edward Davis are supposed to have used lonely Cocos, 400 mi. from the mainland, to cache their booty. In modern times many a gentleman of fortune has searched Cocos for pirates' spoils. Not long after Franklin Roosevelt stopped to fish at Cocos on his way to Hawaii last year, a British syndicate began the most business-like search of all. Trouble developed when the authorities of Costa Rica, which claims Cocos, got wind of their doings. Shortly 75 Costa Rican policemen arrived at the island, deported the treasure hunters bag and baggage for digging...
...bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...
...sheared away the bowsprit, left a gaping hole. By the time Gerbault reached Bermuda (16 days out of Manhattan), the Firecrest had to be completely overhauled. From Bermuda, Gerbault headed through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. One day after he left Galapagos, a bonito, 35 lbs., tried to jump over the boat, stunned itself against the mainsail, made Gerbault many a good meal. In the tropics Gerbault wore few clothes, never a hat; the sun tanned him but never struck him down...