Word: codfishing
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...Webster without trying to look like the great man. His Webster is not the violent Massachusetts statesman but a homely, gusty humanitarian. Jabez, his wife (Anne Shirley) and his mother (Jane Darwell) are first-rate as the kind of people who made New England "out of hard luck and codfish...
...east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
...early books, scorned by U. S. critics, were warmly received, like their author, in England, where she fascinated Thomas Hardy with descriptions of San Francisco's cable cars, described George Moore as "a codfish crossed by a satyr." The Conqueror (1902), a life of Alexander Hamilton, generated a whole school of romantic, novelized biography...
...labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center's swank...
...From the sack of Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 13): the dead being flopped into trucks like limp loads of fat codfish; the scorched, wailing baby in the railway station square, quite alone except for acres of dead and the newsreel cameramen...