Word: codfishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor-husband; Solomon Willard would recognize, down to the last granite alock, the Bunker Hill Monument he designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...
Dahl is as much a part of Boston as codfish and baked beans. For years his cartoons in the Herald on every view of the local scene have delighted and angered proper and improper Bostonians. The HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1248 Massachusetts Avenue, is selling this $2.50 book at a Season Special price...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King
Gustaf VI of Sweden at their Sofiero summer palace. King Gustaf apologized for the main dish, explaining that even a royal fisherman must dine on what he catches. Said he: "It should have been tunny fish, which we were out to get this morning, but we caught 15 codfish instead...
...rank of ambassador (for Canada, J. Scott Macdonald will be shifted from the embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the new one in Belgrade; for Yugoslavia, Minister Rade Pribicevic in Ottawa has been prompted). To show its good will, Canada has even sent a gift of 125 tons of codfish to Titoland...