Word: fished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curriculum, a satire on educators, consists of a series of lectures on the history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks tequila daisies at a Tijuana bar. Professor Peddiwell reports that the three fundamentals taught to youngsters in this curriculum were: 1) fish - grabbing -with -the -bare -hands, 2) horse-clubbing, 3) saber-tooth-tiger-scaring-with-fire (see cut). When fish became too agile to catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting that...
...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...
Withington who considers his dish in the category of oysters on the half-shell, announced that he was answering all letters and planned to invite Miss Georgia Browne to the Jubilee. It is believed, however, that she will refuse for fear that Withington will have to eat another fish to finance the weekend...
...like flypaper. "Pitcher plants" grow leaves that collect and hold water in which insects, birds and mice, attracted by toothsome exudates, fragrant smells or bright colors, are drowned. The bladderwort is an underwater plant whose bladders are equipped with elastic, one-way valves. Once a small crustacean or fish has ventured in, he cannot...
...boiling water and making tea. Greatest lack in the diet is fat. For this less important element, the committee could offer only the lame suggestion that "fat [should be added] in such quantities as are available," trusted that famished civilians would scramble for peanuts, olives, soybeans or fatty fish...