Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white man was a fool. He had tried to build a bird, had achieved only a dead fish, although in strict fairness, it was admitted that he might have something in the big bow, if he ever learned to make a proper arrow...
...year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew), too full of chocolate ice cream sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member...
...RAINBOW FISH-Ralph Bates-Button...
Marseilles is over run with deserters from Spain, French soldiers, Ford cars, prostitutes and Oxford students on their Spring vacation. My hotel window looks out to a bustling alley strewn with garlic shops, clothes lines and fish mongers. This place was recommened as being picturesque: it is all that, even down to the hotel porters, which by the way, are women. I was a bit embarrassed when at the ring of the bell a young girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs...
...Guide Bill Hatch, credit for inventing the "drop-back" method of hooking sailfish (giving 20 ft. or so of slack after the fish's first tap, before striking...