Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled: "Well, you'll have to wait a minute. I can't get one started. . . . " In Wollaston, Mass...
...Japanese schooner anchored just outside Vladivostok's heavily fortified harbor. The captain said he was a "scientific fisherman" and had had a little engine trouble. Frontier guards reported that he had high power radio sending sets aboard, that his schooner was engaged in espionage...
...setting, supposed to be the Elysian Fields, looks like an old-fashioned cut-out valentine with harp strings on one side and a foot bridge across the middle. There Helen and Achilles sit and sing love duets. An old fisherman comes by. convinces Helen that no love can last forever. She sends Achilles back to the other ghosts, stretches herself out to die. A younger fisherman appears. After he dances vigorously for her, the incurable Helen decides to try again...
...person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down for him by Horace S. Mazet...
While acting as the specialist in Atlantic Refining, Fisherman LaBranche had received orders to sell a total of 3,500 shares at $31 a share. On his book he had orders to buy 5,000 shares of Atlantic Re fining at that price. Instead of matching the 3,500 sell orders with 3,500 of the buy orders, Fisherman LaBranche bought for his own firm 2,000 shares at $31, thus filling only 1,500 of the buy orders, not 3,500 shares as he could have done. Presumably those people whose orders went unfilled had to pay higher than...