Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fish Master Nakashima raises many varieties of goldfish. Prices range from $2.50 per 100 for small common goldfish to $25 each for rare veil-tails and fringe-tails. Other varieties: comets (slightly larger and fancier than common goldfish), wakins (Japan's common goldfish, new in the U. S.), shubunkins, black moors (a black Chinese fish with big popeyes), calico fantails (mottled blue & red, with long, flowing tails). Ozark Fisheries also sell tadpoles, Japanese snails, baby turtles, fish food, water plants...
TIME isn't so smart after all. Richard Whitney wears a little pig on his watch chain (TIME, April 25)- not because he is a fancier of fine hogs - though he may be-but because he is a member of Harvard's famous Porcellian Club. Members of the seven "final" clubs at Harvard wear such things-an owl for the Owl Club, a fox for the Fox Club, a fly for the Fly Club, a bull for the A.D. Club...
Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...
...Southern New York Fish & Game Association that copperhead snakes were invading Westchester County, the Westchester board of supervisors pondered offering a bounty for dead copperheads. But first the supervisors wrote for advice to Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, curator of reptiles in the New York zoo and famed snake fancier and expert. Last week they got it. The Fish & Game Association was wrong, said Snakeman Ditmars. There was no copperhead menace in Westchester County yet. But a bounty might be a menace. Dead copperheads would be brought into the county, many a harmless milk snake would be mistaken for a copperhead...
While the show was on, Thomas John Watson, cattle fancier and president of International Business Machines, delivered an address at Lafayette College on Founder's Day. This is not a "machine age," said he, but a "man age" and "holds forth far greater opportunities for the young man . . . than at any other time in our history...