Word: dolphins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made as talismans, then as cures, then for seals, and at length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...
...extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...headed snake and three live wolves in his office. When he arrived at the Cleveland fairgrounds and saw the waters of Lake Erie rippling at his feet, he decided to stage a revue in and on the water, a sort of marine circus. He immediately had a dolphin tattooed on his chest and went around saying...
...Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California...
...appear off Oahu's Diamond Head. None of them approached the record for the 2,200-mi. crossing: 11 days, 14 hr.. by Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy's Burrapeg was second...