Word: filleting
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...magistrates' convention at Northampton: the Ministry's Enforcement Officer "has in his office what I think is called a smashing blonde. He sends her out with a ration book to see what she can get. I understand from butchers it is extremely hard to cut fillet steak to the exact requirement. I think it is unfair to send this good-looking girl round the shops to catch them out for twopence halfpenny...
There are also brief excursions into such specialized fishing byways as fly tying (there are "more than 30,000 recognized fly patterns"), the "Solunar Theory" of fishing, "How to Fillet a Fish," how to prepare a fish for mounting, and the "comparatively new" use of artificial lures in going after such saltwater leviathans as tarpon, barracuda and dolphin...
Into a Hansom. Despite the hard, rough work, the market men like it. In the old days they did well enough to don Prince Albert coats after work and ride home in hansom cabs. They still pay their workers well. Example: fillet men (who can reduce a fish to pure meat with three or four deft swipes of a knife) get up to $125 a week...
First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...