Word: codding
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...ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered in a great spoon after every meal, a green-glooming fluid in a sticky bottle?Cod-liver Oil. This ob- noxious tonic possesses many of the vitamins necessary to discourage rickets, gives strength to rickety children...
Women Who Give. Far from being, as the title indicates, a story of Society women on the rampage through gilded interiors, this is a straightforward story of Cape Cod fisher folk, presented with a wealth of detail. The foot of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley...
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...