Word: clams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never met Mr. Michael Mullins, and do not know whether he is a Harvard professor or a Boston Barkeep, or whether he lives on Brattle Street, or in South Boston; but if he is not the cream in your coffee, I trust he will always be the clam in your chowder; for under his inspiration, if newspaper accounts are correct, your organization has just given a demonstration of a truth often forgotten in academic classrooms, namely, that there is a fundamental distinction between pacifism and peace. As a member of the Harvard Club of Washington, I feel sure that...
...correspondents were concerned, the conference might as well have been held inside a clam. They found H.M.S. Kent berthed in the most in accessible corner of Singapore's harbor with British bluejackets stationed "to prevent strangers from approaching within 100 yards...
Though he was only five feet tall, Japanese have long called Marshal Muto their "Silent Giant," thus paying homage to his clam-like taciturnity and titanic will. In Changchun he ruled, as General Hishikari will rule, with the titles of Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo and Tokumei Zenken Taishi ("The Emperor's Private Ambassador...
...bottom of Long Island Sound, close to Manhattan Island, sea-exploring Dr. William Beebe last week slapped at a wayward fish, caught a clam and a starfish, without getting his trousers wet by the cold, filthy water. A new-type, little submarine demonstrated for the first time by Simon Lake, submarine pioneer, enabled Dr. Beebe to make his gesture...
...Ella Clam...