Word: codfishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduate polls handily, although the Law School returned a large majority for Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Two parties of Harvard "indifference" grew up in that decade. 1924 saw the rise and fall of the Nihilists, a masked and secret society of 50 men who backed Little Codfish Cabot (a dummy at the top of a telephone pole) for President and Joe Dube, "the favorite of Soldiers Field...
...jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
Boston traditionally lives on beans and codfish. But the wails that Massachusetts Congressman John McCormack heard were not for the bean and the cod. Boston voters wanted red meat...
After the Archbishop's blessing, fishermen and clergy went about the business of consuming 400 pounds of lobster, ten bushels of steamed clams, 1,000 pounds of boiled codfish and corresponding quantities of beer and wine...
...Codfish has made a new man of me, for this reason: that major menace of the modern world, the Scientist, has not yet been able to tackle the fish of the sea and feed them up according to his formulae instead of letting them live according to the rules of Nature...