Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that shrimp were running, that prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...
Such piecemeal laboratory tests however do not completely satisfy the conscientious manufacturer. He gives away footwear to people who are hardest on them-basketball players, garage and creamery workers, fishermen and miners, who will return the goods for examination when well worn. "At times," explained Tester Glancy, "men and young women are hired to walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each...
...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island...
Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...
...example, when the Iceland fishermen of Britanny are sailing about in the vast open sea, the movie chooses to show the running aground of the hero's ship and the specific reasons for his never returning to the arms of his bride. The novel, on the other hand, in dealing with the voyage strives above all to pass on a consciousness of the gloom, cold, and impenetrable unfriendliness of the northern waters. And when the great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does...