Word: crawfishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swimming Crawfish. For 60 crawfish prepare a bouillon with 2 cups dry white wine, ½cup cognac, 3 large carrots and one large onion cut in thin slices, 1 teaspoon salt, a pinch of cayenne and 3 chopped shallots. Boil covered for ½ hour. Then put in crawfish and boil for 10 minutes, turning them about three or four times. Serve hot, cold or tepid...
...striking exhibit for a 19-year-old. Paolo's muscular sketches showed a smooth, well-developed style and a precise eye for detail. His best were natural subjects he saw at the zoo or the family farm: a furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped...
...first thing Father Buliard did in Coppermine was to learn Eskimo-an accomplishment, he remarks happily, that gave him a great advantage over his Anglican rivals. He also learned how to put together a reasonable facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal guts braided with blubber. Like...
...upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...
Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...