Word: codfishing
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Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...letter sent to Governor Ely last night the CRIMSON offered to furnish in place of the codfish, sacred emblem of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bennie the alligator, late of the Lampoon sanctum. The letter follows in part...
...view of the unfortunate disappearance of the codfish, sacred emblem of the State of Massachusetts, and in view of the probability that its present location is on this side of the Charles, the CRIMSON wishes to offer you Bennie the alligator, hoping in some degree to mets out poetic justice...
...faces lower selling prices. Tinker mackerel, haddock, cod and other piscine products sell at about half what they did two years ago. But like other food companies Gorton-Pew's faith is buttressed by the knowledge that people must eat. And in many a U. S. home the codfish ball is still a Friday night and Sunday morning institution. The better to send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes a day. Machinery does everything from slicing...
After this second death, Mr. Carroll left grammar school and was paid 6? an hour for "picking codfish sounds." The sound is the fish's air bladder which, ripped from the backbone, dried and cured, makes isinglass. Later he went to work for Slade Gorton, a pop-eyed man as round as a hogshead who had been one of the founders of Slade Gorton & Co. in 1849. When he was 16 Tom Carroll was considered experienced enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely...