Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Codfish Cabot" is essentially a satire, a satire that manages to include in one brief sweep all that goes to make up a certain type of Harvard education, with the exception, naturally, of studies. It is here that the sponsors of the book make their only mistake; for in portraying a single type as perhaps representative of the whole, they have laid themselves open to attack. Everyone does not misuses the Freshman Jubliee, or consider probation normal; and it is my guess that there will be some who will say so. But yet there is sufficient truth...
...broader," the yellow-green eyes flash-the man speaks. Once Kerensky spoke for twelve hours without stopping. Senor Ibañéz, after seeing him, thought he could speak for 24 hours and not be in the least affected. Said he: "The Russian has a mouth like a codfish . . . and a voice like a cross between a megaphone and a trombone...
...Gloucester, right in the City Hall, he proved that he was master of the fish-skinning world. Undisturbed by the delighted howls of excited "rooters" and indifferent to the jeers of the jealous enemies, he removed the backbones and fins and skins from a quarter of a ton of codfish in just fifty-three minutes. He won by six fish, with his audience standing on the benches and shouting themselves hoarse over his achievement...