Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asia: "The marching forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude...
...merchant, sleeps sluggishly with his boots on while downstairs Katerina, his wife, broods on a couch, paces the floor. She cannot sleep. She has never been taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam. Before he leaves Katerina has to bow low before him, swear to be faithful in his absence...
...still shaky when their forwards grow tired. Manager Tommy Gorman who helped them win the Stanley Cup last year has been replaced by Clem Loughlin. Chicago hockey crowds, impatient because the team has done most of its winning away from its home arena, have lately taken to tossing dead fish down from the gallery...
Returning with some 12,000 live and mounted exhibits of the inhabitants of the North woods, the Sportsman's Show is running through this week in the Mechanics Building on Huntington Avenue. Indians and their appurtenances, fish and the tackle that is supposed to catch them, animals and the weapons with which to hunt them are all included in this annual exhibition...
...Soap sales boomed the first quarter of last year when retailers and the public stocked up before the 3?-per-lb. tax on imported vegetable and fish oils raised prices. Last week Procter & Gamble reported fourth quarter earnings of $3,458,000 which brought earnings for the calendar year to $14,000,000 against...