Word: fisherfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden denied that the firing was her Navy or Army at artillery practice. The British Admiralty maintained its usual taciturnity. Nor was there any explanation for prolonged heavy firing heard four days later off Bergen, Norway. There mighty detonations shook houses of fisherfolk. and reverberations of small-calibre firing sounded for 14 hours. But the British Admiralty said it knew of no naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany...
...started when envious French fisherfolk noting that perfidious Britons had built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...soon found ourselves in company with the fisherfolk having a grand time as Joan Crawford and her flock of suitors pranced merrily through "Sadie McKee" which luckily comes to the State today. Of course, the other film with Zasu Pitts and Ned Sparks was much more amusing. In fact even the merits of a portrayal of Arnold Rothstein or the demerits of the propaganda extravaganza, "Stand Up and Cheer" are more satisfactory for comment but alas they won't have a double bill at the State...
...running, fighting rapids, flashing over falls, bucking fishways around dams, bound more than 500 mi. inland to spawn and die. And last week for the first time in years no man hindered them. Boats cruised slowly on the river to see that no nets were laid. The Columbia River fisherfolk were on strike...
...last year. This year she decided to decorate Old Congregational Church. In five weeks she turned out a mural 9 ft. by 20 ft. in three panels. Her Christ is tall, slight, blue-eyed, dark-haired, aged about 30. The face is an idealized combination of many Cape Cod fisherfolk. On either side of Christ's dory are His 27 listeners, who posed first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory are two fishermen, deacons in the church. Prominently featured are Grocer L. Sidney Atwood, president of the church...