Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delaware Bay, an oyster sucked a little fish into his maw. The fish fed himself fat upon the other fish the oyster ate. One day, grown bigger, he ate the oyster. Last week in Dover, Del., the oyster shell was opened by one Mrs. I. Paul Jones. Out fell the fish...
...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...
...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...Christ that are the Church's heritage from Rome. They are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, yet they called their meeting "the first Anglo-Catholic Congress to be held in the U. S." For the benefit of those who were puzzled to know whether they were fish or flesh or good red Roman, the prelates defined their position...
...drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...