Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Federalist period until 1928 Newburyport, Mass, was a staid, church going, codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
Imaginative shoemen of recent years have scanned the animal kingdom for new exotic skins with which to make ladies' slippers. Besides using horses, pigs, calves and goats, they have skinned kangaroos, seals, ostriches, alligators, boa constrictors, pythons, cobras, watersnakes, lizards, sharks, codfish. Last week at the Atlantic City convention of the Middle Atlantic Shoe Retailers, shoemen admiringly scrutinized a pair of evening slippers made from something still different-goldfish skin. The slippers look as if they were made of metal, cost $80 the pair. Shoemen hope to simplify the process, make them cheaper so that many a lady...