Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side as if about to bank, went completely out of control and dived 500 ft. straight down. Wilkins, an old friend of Bohnet, looked away at the last instant, but his co-pilot saw the ship smash into the ground, break into a twisted wreck like a disemboweled fish...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...
When Oklahoma's silver-tongued young Senator Josh Lee introduced Alfred P. ("Fish") Murrah to Franklin Roosevelt as candidate for Federal District Judge in Oklahoma, the President declared: "He's young enough. Is he liberal enough? Does he recognize the rights of the man in the street as well as the man in the skyscraper...
...porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England, foils an attempt on the Queen's life, uncovers a Spanish plot to assassinate her, impersonates a traitor to his land at the court of Spain's King Philip II, defeats the King's palace guard in a fencing match and accompanies...
...Eric" Erickson's collection of portraits included choice Rembrandts. His 1,000-acre duck-shooting box at Brookhaven, L. I. was the envy of his gunning friends. The Megantic Fish & Game Club in northwestern Maine prospered under his twelve-year presidency and his fly-casting was respected by the troutiest...