Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"-peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor Percival Proctor Baxter made proclamation as follows: It would seem that a great corporation like the one that controls the powder industry in America, with millions of assets, would...
...Home-of P. T. Barnum and his "industrious fleas," his "Anatomical Venus," his "Magnificant Moving Diorama of the Funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte," his educated dogs, his Albinos, his questionable "Fejee Mermaid" (which turned out to be a gruesome object "made from parts of a monkey and a fish, and purchased from a Japanese sailor who must have had a great deal of time on his hands")-the days of elegant soirées attended by "the very elite of society-scientific, elegant, highly respectable, and probably the richest and purest in town...
...Pike and small fish of the perch variety often wiggle through damp grass for long distances between ponds...
...certain fish, by accurate sharpshooting with drops of water, is able to knock flies from overhanging branches and devour them in the water...
...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...