Word: conches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time...
...bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple...
Louis Rice Wasey, board chairman of Erwin, Wasey 8 Co. (advertising agency), and Edwin Eugene Taylor, one-time executive vice president of General Foods Corp, formed Bahama Isles Foods Corp. to manufacture and distribute meat of the pink conch. Though natives look upon el cobo (great Bahama conch) as their staff of life, it has never been commercialized...
...Chicago is not only a visitor but co-owner of the quaint Nassau Guardian, one of the world's few newspapers to be composed on inverted tombstones from old graveyards. Publisher Ames's partner is Miss Mary Moseley, spry member of one of the proudest "conch" (native) families. Other outstanding "conches": Sandses and Solomons, merchants; Fred Armbrister, able, artistic photographer who in summertime snaps his shutters at Banff...
...horn blowing (usually on a conch shell) had almost passed into the limbo of forgotten things when an unusual event served to resurrect it temporarily. On July 4 about 100 students journeyed to St. Johnsbury to participate in a celebration there. They were so noisy on the train and in the town, where they stopped a congressman's speech with boos and ridicule, that the faculty began an investigation. The whole student body took up the protest on the night of July 12 and for four hours pandemonium reigned. Horns were blown continuously, windows were broken and furniture was smashed...