Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate is possibly less subject to the complex than are his elders: to him Friday usually means fish and the beginning of a weekend. But even he is likely to become uneasy on gazing at the current date-line. Even he cannot throw off the accumulated weight of ages: the most unlucky of days, coincidental with the most unlucky of numbers--one's callow self-confidence wavers...
...little white spot dances slowly around the cabin of The Spirit of St. Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...
JOHN HAY was chosen Secretary of State, and not John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Richard Olney, Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes...
From Buffalo went Dr. Eugene G. Wiseman to explain myopia (nearsightedness) to the American Academy of Optometry at Manhattan last week. When he said that humans still look as fishes do, his audience thought of those coldly glaring individuals popularly called "fishy-eyed" because their eyes have the impersonal stare of a dead fish. Dr. Wiseman meant that human eyes are not set squarely on the front of the face. Human eyes are cocked slightly to each side...
...those commonplace scandals so often current in this day. Told in public by lawyers for Mrs. Doris M. Kresge who is suing her husband, Sebastian Spering Kresge, for a divorce, it related an alleged instance of misconduct performed in Manhattan by S. S. Kresge and one Gladys Ardelle Fish. But the shareholder was certain that the charge was untrue. Himself morally immaculate, he had made sure that the head of the company in which he was about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known, not only as an able...