Word: fished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mary Louise, 80, Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, daughter of a Cardiff fishmonger, who twice scandalized English society: in 1918 when she married the tenth Marquess of Queensberry and in 1920 when, after the death of her husband, she went to work in the fish shop that she inherited on St. Mary's, Street, Cardiff, Wales; in Cardiff...
...Wisconsin Restaurant Association, meeting in Milwaukee, uttered a low moan and a loud groan over competition from church suppers, adopted a resolution calling on the state board of health to subject food-serving churches to the same health regulations as restaurants. Noting that one Milwaukee church served 1,200 fish dinners at its monthly Friday night party, Elmer A. Conforti, executive vice president of the association, said: "These church dinners can be the ruination of a restaurant business...
...blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took a little hock; 4) we went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take two-came with the Stilton cheese. Then we adjourned...
...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...dozen Corner cousins, ranging in age from just-walking to just-wedding, who spend summers together on the west coast of Ireland. Huck Finn himself would like the way the Corners grow. "We shrieked together in joyful terror . . . Black bilge water, floating dirt and oil and fish scales had spurted through the [boat's] gratings, and into this we slid." "Harry wore [an old cavalry] sabre, but not before I had nearly killed him with it by a blow which might have split his skull...