Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Killers of the Sea (Grand National). Hero of this five-reel sport feature is one Wallace Caswell, captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...
...dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence is impossible due to the fact that they are nine-tenths dead and full...
...octopus sequence. This time ''the man of steel" rescues his buddy, a diver, bogged down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers of the Sea contains some...
...German Consul in Manhattan begged his good friend, Dr. George Winthrop Fish, Park Avenue urologist, to get special help for Captains Pruss and Sammt who seemed to be dying at Lakewood. Dr. Fish immediately enlisted Dr. Allen Old-father Whipple, Columbia University's Persia-born professor of surgery. Professor Whipple immediately arranged for the transfer of Captains Pruss and Sammt to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre where every resource of modern medicine was promptly mobilized to save them...
Among U. S. editors and statesmen the prestige of Foreign Affairs, sobersided, grey-backed quarterly, is high. Its circulation is modest (9.500). When Foreign Affairs' thick-thatched, sobersided editor, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, addresses his audience, he does not hope to be heard by the U. S. at large. But sometimes Editor Armstrong has more to say than he can pack into the pages of his quarterly and wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned...