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...skindivers learned that, fast as fish are, most of them are too lazy to take evasive measures. They swim languidly for a while to keep ahead of the net, but eventually they tire and drift back into its maw. After that, they are stuffed into its trailing "cod end," from which there is no escape...
That mellow old glow of mantled gas is bathing the front walks and herbaceous borders of thousands of ranchstyles, split-levels, Cape Cod saltboxes and California moderns-lending what their owners hope is a touch of antiquarian distinction in a fluorescent world. In 1914, before the miracle of cheap electricity made them obsolete, some 290,000 gas lamps illuminated U.S. streets. Today there are no fewer than...
...surprises for those who are familiar with Knath's Cape Cod scenery-the lilacs in his backyard, deer feeding in the pines, light-splashed docks and shacks. What is perennially surprising, though, is the freshness that pours through his black-framed mosaic hues. Through...
...there were any doubt that the Commonwealth's ways would be changed, it was dispelled the day after the election in Wellfleet, a charming Cape Cod summer community. For his part in the construction of some harbor improvements, Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Gardinier was convicted on eight counts of larceny and adjudged "a common and notorious thief...
...expect to be robbed in Chicago But not in the home of the cod. So I hope that the Cabots and Lowells Will mention the matter to God. wrote Poet Ogden Nash, 62, moved to versify in the Boston Globe as part of a plea to crooks to return at least the family photos from the $7,000 worth of loot stolen from his car in Boston...