Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, they found him. Crowds lined the shores of Cape Cod Canal the next day waiting. Tricky, and famed for his practical-jokingness, their Hero putputted seaward, rounded the cape and anchored at Provincetown, where the press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...
...toad, one of the most ancient forms of present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from the suprarenal glands of animals. Two other ingredients act like digitalis, which the purple foxglove produces. There is a reservation in the scientists' report. They do not know how the Chinese dry and prepare their toad venom. Strange things may be added, befogging a true analysis...
...Cape Cod, where he still grows cranberries, and to which he returns every summer with his son, that Glendon Sr. first loved the water. At 19, he was made official coach of the Boston A. A. He has never stopped coaching since. Between him and his son exists a quiet undemonstrative affection. Glendon Jr. calls his father "Dick." His father answers with "Rich...
...very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners on the top of the chimneys of the Cambridge Gas Company. There is a charming and not heavily exaggerated view of the Cape Cod Canal; and the aviation photographs strike a not which is but seldom sounded in the current rotogravures...
...early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...