Word: fisherfolk
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...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...
...live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile a mighty Linguistic Atlas of the U.S., first of its kind,* he and six other field workers left their base of operations at Yale University, New Haven, Conn, last week. First region whose dialects will be studied and charted on detailed maps, comprises the States of Maine, Massachusetts...
...Herrings alive! Herrings alive! Fine Yarmouth bloaters!" cried lusty Yarmouth fisherfolk one morning last week as usual, then changed their tune to "Hurrah for th' Prince o' Wales...