Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honorable discharge papers are always on hand to prove to the Doubting Thomas that he IS an Armenian. Besides if he were a Turk, he wouldn't be able to win so many times! . . . Another false fact, deserving of enlightenment, is that Ekizian is not a former fish-peddler or short-order cook, as many newshawks have claimed. While here in the "City of Angels," he wasn't given the opportunity by local rasslin' moguls to display his true wares; the reason for his venture east. LEON ALVIN JACOBIAN...
...frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape...
...once considered the most heathenish, warlike, cannibalistic. At the turn of the last Century, however, Marovo had a Chief of Chiefs named Tatagu who proved to be eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi...
...Startzev, raped Eskimo girls, sent indignant Dr. Wulfson off on a long sledge expedition, sent Startzev after him to kill him, then tried to poison Startzev. The widow Wulf-son managed to administer a life-saving antidote to Startzev. Mrs. Semenchuk whipped Eskimo men, who were first forbidden to fish, then denied use of the Island's provisions...
...flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture (all of them were on Beauty) grossed $1,000. In Boston 60 Harvard boys marched...