Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep on a boat, I'm going on a boat to the Caribbean, and I'm going to lie in the sun and sleep, and perhaps catch a fish on the side. I'll get back to Washington toward Christmas time. While Congress is getting ready to convene I'll be using the joyous Christmas season to prepare gifts for the new Congress...
...repainted old masterpieces, and now resumes its former importance. The paintings cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged...
...figure. He seldom downs a cocktail, which Italians consider fattening, takes a glass or two of wine at every meal. When Father-in-law Mussolini went on what amounted to a fruit diet, so did Son-in-law Ciano, but his gastronomic passion at present is for fish...
...Grant's reasons for appointments to foreign posts was because he wanted to get someone out of the country. The high point of Hamilton Fish is in its picture of the strange and lonely President, who would send his old friends to Fish with a card stating his willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish...
...Loyal to his friends even after their dishonesty was proved, Grant blocked the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary had been convicted of accepting bribes, and during the Whiskey Ring exposure, when his confidential secretary Babcock was on trial, only the stubborn interference of Fish and other Cabinet officers prevented Grant from rushing to St. Louis to defend his disgraceful assistant in person...