Word: codfish
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...placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned. He announced that July 27-the day Governor Hurley refused to extradite the escaped convict-would henceforth be "Hurley Day" in Georgia prisons and that "Hurley Day will be observed annually in serving all State prisoners codfish cakes and Boston baked beans...
...planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could hide. They were not quieted until a Basque priest had said Mass, a Basque chef stewed up steaming caldrons of their national dish, bacalao Bilbaino (creamed codfish...
...Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns, could not protect them...
...Marquand's current novel in the form of a memoir is really very nice. However much the codfish aristocracy may affect to ignore it, or to be very politely amused-but-still-uncomprehending, it has accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
...there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety