Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coaxing oysters to mate is not so easy as it sounds, chiefly because they are not by nature passionate. To get a Cape Cod oyster to look at a Blue Point is difficult enough, but to tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point...
...Passed a bill for the acquisition by the Government, for $11,500,000, of the Cape Cod Canal...
...this home of the bean and the cod where the Lodges may play with the Moynahan's and Cassldy's, it is with pleasure that the paper honors of the evening are split three ways: between Moynahan, Cassldy, and Lodge Moynahan's feet, as usual; Cassldy's height and line; Lodge's general excellence. Hodder exercises a mean mashieniblick with his part, which may not be the higher criticism, but means what it says. The chorus (let us speak now of the young ladies) has an uncommon ability to smile and smile and keep...
...stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins?B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present in cod-liver oil that prevents rickets...
...dramatized version of Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod novel, "Shavings", has been so successfully presented by the Boston Stock Company in the past that it has become the regular Thanksgiving-week play at the St. James. If it has always been as skilfully done as it was Monday night, its popularity is not surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level...