Word: codding
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These are great days in Gloucester. Cod is king again, and supreme as he has not been since before the days of the canning factories. All the old salts have turned out to spin yarns with their visitors from Nova Scotia, and no one who ever displayed special prowess with cod has been permitted to hide his light under a bushel. Not only the technique of sailing and the merits of different types of schooners but all the details of the fisherman's trade have been recited to willing and unwilling audiences, and boasts of great achievements have been brazenly...
Gloucester may well be proud of its hero. Even the old timers as they left the hall chuckled to themselves and admitted that perhaps these young fellers weren't quite so dull as they seemed. To the ignorant metropolitan, unversed in the lore of the cod, the record is evidence that not even the introduction of machinery and fish factories has been able to deprive-fish skinning of its artistry. --The New York Tribune
...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...
...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...