Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because it is water-repellent and inhospitable to bacteria and fungi, Vinyon hopes to be tops for raincoats, fish lines, fish nets, boat sails, bathing suits...
Incidentally, the Balloon Barrage is quite beautiful. We have had such incomparable weather since the war started that every day we can see these "silver fish" swimming into the clouds: because as the clouds approach -a thing you are not normally conscious of - these balloons appear to swim into them. The latest crack, which I expect you already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were...
...Manhattan. With them was Prince Raden Waloejo, cousin of Java's reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...just a country boy at heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
Pointedly Mr. Woodrum read the record of Mr. Fish's Grand Tour of Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...