Word: codfishing
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Australian girls are very fine girls. Heave away! Heave away! With codfish balls they comb their curls. . . . Heave away for far Australia! -Antique Song...
...most recent of such books was "Little Codfish Cabot at Harvard," which appeared two years...
...approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship emblematic of the fifty years of his jovial existence...
...rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While the rise apace of the new west was so much a matter of fields, food, and transportation...
Harvard has had its share of misguided Freshmen as many chronicles by graduates have delighted in revealing. Owen Wister and the authors of "Little Codfish Cabot" together with a host of others loss recent have detailed the vagaries of Freshman foibles. One of the typical stories told relates the experience of one newly entered student who found himself "rushed by the biggest club in the college", as he wrote his parents. The club it was revealed, was the Harvard Union...