Word: codder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...
...England 'Character' in American Fiction," Joseph C. Lincoln declared that, despite many statements made twenty-five years ago to the contrary, New England was still an excellent field for writers. Mr. Lincoln also told many amusing stories illustrating different sides in the character of the Cape Codder...