Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade, one hour late, wended the streets of the dormitory district last night with placards announcing the candidacy of Little Codfish Cabot for President and of Joe Dube, the favorite of Soldiers Field, for Vice-President...
Despite the presence of the codfish himself at the top of a long pole, the vice-presidential candidate appeared more popular with the marchers, for yells of "We want Dube" were repeated in unison throughout more than half the parade...
...blast of culture which should last them for some time. All the accumulated talent of Harvard and much of the purest cream of the professional stage, under the leadership of a recent graduate of Yale, will carry the gospel of the theatre from under the shadow of the Sacred Codfish to the barren hinterland of Maine and New Hampshire...
...selecting the name of a numerous Massachusetts tribe, the satirist's taste is questionable. The Harvard Lampoon, more dedicate and urbane inverted "Holler Codfish Cabot at Harvard" is the unarm life." The slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales...
...large number of paintings and drawings by Harvard and Radcliffe students, including original copies on many of the illustrations of "Codfish Cabot", will be put on exhibition today in Robinson Hall by the Harvard Fine Arts Club. The exhibit, which will be open daily from 9 to 6 o'clock to the public, will last for two weeks...