Word: eels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers...
...corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...
...Eel...
...globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards, bearded ladies, dengue fever, betel-chewing babus and-most resembling the structure of the book-live eel...
...Eel-hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with...