Word: choicestance
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...brown. In the autumn they are big & bright enough to be sold. They are bailed out of the ponds, sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories...
Eheu, these are sorry times indeed when the nitred vaults for lack of love must be thrown open and the choicest vintage blazoned on bill boards. But perhaps before the exquisite measures of learned Flaccus die completely from the ears of men, there will be a new Renaissance which will save the attic treasures without resort to abasing vulgarity...
...World War has broken out again, at least among the undergraduate irregulars. Since where three sons of Harvard are gathered together three will be from two-and-a-half to four opinions about most subjects, the want of consensus about this proposed commemoration was unavoidable. A few of the choicest doctrinaires and come-outers said there should be no monument of any sort. They seemed to consider it as an encouragement of war. The majority could not breathe on these dizzy pacific altitudes. The only question was how the graduates who had played their part honorably in the war should...
...plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats and wines. It seems evident that in this act nature has incorporated pleasures analogous to those of the love of which she is deprived...
...canopied bed, an ermine rug for a blanket, toes always exposed; that she is never seen in public without her husband, has 36 fur coats, wears 14-karat-gold hairpins; that in Europe, where the Brulatours travel as Count & Countess, a Cairo sheik offered her husband four of his choicest wives in exchange...