Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freedom as opposed to the unifying force of Catholicism. If this is true of Protestantism in general, small-town New England has been one of its hardest fought battle-grounds. Typical of the spirit is the story of the travelling salesman a generation ago who stopped in a Cape Cod village to pass the time of day with a customer, deacon of one of the four village churches, and asked casually about its welfare. "Well," replied the deacon, "we're three hunderd in debt. But," he added cheerfully, "the others is worse...
...Joseph C. Lincoln's novel. Mr. Lincoln's "Cape Coddities" of one sort or another have delighted thousands of people, and "Shavings" is no exception to the rule. It has, furthermore, the advantage of a more skillful dramatization than has been the fate of many a successful volume. Cape Cod folk have the double advantage of being both Yankees and sea-faring, and their converse has consequently the picturesqueness of both types. Life in a small town "down on the Cape" is almost certain to develop interesting characters...
...Cape Cod was so called," said Mr. Lincoln, "because of a vow by the discoverer of it that he would name the place with the name of the first fish he caught off its coasts. It's rather lucky for the inhabitants, by the way, that he didn't catch an eel." The first town settled was Eastham, and the first inhabitants came from the Plymouth settlement. But it is Mr. Lincoln's theory, based on deduction, that the settlers came by sea. For we are given to understand that our Pilgrim Fathers were men of commonsense and piety...
...Cape Cod," continued Mr. Lincoln, "have always been sailors. It was a Cape Cod captain who brought into Boston the tea that provided for that city's famous party, and our navies in 1775 and 1812 were largely officered and manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that...
...course," Mr. Lincoln admitted. "I was born on Cape Cod, and it is said of such that he knows three things: first, that Cape Cod is the finest place in the world; second, that its people are the finest in the world; and third, that he is the finest of them all. But all the same, these old seamen were great characters. They didn't do any flag-waving, they didn't make the eagle, scream. They were sturdy, dignified and fond of having their own way; a phrase coined some years ago just fits them--100 percent American...