Word: fish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had the quotation gone over the ticker than an order came selling him ten shares at 30. He quoted again two points down and his bid was snatched at 28. He continued dropping his price, but like a hungry school of fish snatching at fat grubs, sellers snatched at his bids all the way down to 14. Then, fussed at playing sucker to his own game, he traded in and out at around 15 to stabilize his market. The bears let up. Broker Sykes's face was red. The traders knew, although he didn't, that Spalding...
...momentum of the fish hurtles it out of the water through the hole left by the banana. Quick as a note coming due, the fisherman plunges the banana back into the hole through which the fish has come, cutting off the only possible opening through which it could return to its native habitat...
...friend told me the trapping of banana fish on the surface of the water in this fashion is one of the most highly regarded skills in the South Seas...
Said Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 82: "When I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling menagerie of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures...